Support non text responses

[qustavo]

Only plain text responses are supported now, non text like binaries needs to be supported, this would probably involve changes on the UI as well.

[jacksgt]

The simplest solution would probably be to implement a hotkey/shortcut/mode, which interprets the string specified in the "Body" Window as a path to a file (which then gets sent to the client, instead of the string).

E.g.:

Ctrl+f (or Ctrl+o)

+-Body------------------+
| ~/Documents/test.txt  |
+-----------------------+

-> Sends Content of ~/Documents/test.txt (in binary) to the client. (Headers can still be set manually)

[qustavo]

That should probably work

[qustavo]

@jacksgt I'm working on this here: https://github.com/gchaincl/httplab/tree/respond-with-file, mind to take a look?

[jacksgt]

@gchaincl Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't (yet?) work for me:

$ echo 'this is a test' > /tmp/test.txt
$ curl -i http://localhost:10080
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Server: HTTPLab
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 19:32:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

In httplab I selected "Body (File)" (Ctrl-b), set the string to /tmp/test.txt and applied with Ctrl-a.

[qustavo]

Sorry I didn't explain how it works, make sure one of your responses in .httplab file contains a "File": "" section like this example:

{
  "Responses": {
    "create": {
      "Status": 201,
      "Delay": 0,
      "Body": "OK",
      "File": "/tmp/test.txt",
      "Headers": {
        "X-Server": "HTTPLab"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then, open httplab, Ctrl+L, load the response and hit Ctrl+b to choose between input or file body.

[qustavo]

Implemented here: 157eba5

[jacksgt]

Awesome, just one more thing:

It would be very nice to also support the home directory with ~.
Currently when I enter ~/test.txt (in the Ctrl-o popup), I get: open ~/test.txt: no such file or directory

Maybe even support for all environment variables is possible? ($TMP, $USER, $PATH, $LANGUAGE ...)

[qustavo]

that would be awesome, would you mind to open a new issue?

[jacksgt]

Sure! #18