slowserver

A simple HTTP server which will be as slow as you want!

Motivation

The reason the project was create is to test how our proxy handle blue/green deployment switch.

Usage

The server answers to any HTTP request at <host>/timeout. You can optionally provide a ?timeout=5m parameter in the request. There is a safety timeout flag, so the server will wait the maximum of the param, and the flag

Usage of slowserver:
  -listen string
        address and port to listen (default ":4211")
  -max-timeout string
        maximum timeout (default "10m")

Example

$ docker run -p 8080:8080 aclowkey/slowserver -listen :8080 -max-timeout 1m
$ time curl localhost:8080/timeout?duration=15s
real    0m15.027s
user    0m0.019s
sys     0m0.005s