kevinburke/hamms

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Hamms is a Python library and CLI tool that runs a set of deliberately broken HTTP servers on ports 5500-5600 to elicit failures in HTTP clients. It simulates connection errors, malformed responses, slow servers, oversized headers, and other edge cases.

Use cases

• test how my http client handles malformed responses
• simulate a server that hangs and never responds
• test http client timeout and retry logic
• verify client behavior with huge response headers
• test handling of mismatched content-length responses
• simulate slow servers trickling bytes
• test arbitrary http status code responses

When to choose

• you need to test HTTP client resilience against network failures and malformed data
• you want deterministic, local failure simulation without mocking libraries
• you are writing integration tests for timeout, retry, and error handling paths

When to avoid

• you need to test HTTPS/TLS-specific behavior
• you want a general-purpose HTTP mocking framework with request expectations
• you need actively maintained tooling - the latest release dates to 2017

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

testing http-server mocking testing developer-tools networking apis python cross-platform cli http-client-testing failure-simulation malformed-server fault-injection

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