Tutorials

In these examples, we will use the hoverctl (CLI tool for Hoverfly) to interact with Hoverfly.

Hoverfly can also be controlled via its REST API, or via Native language bindings.

• Basic tutorials
  • Creating and exporting a simulation
  • Importing and using a simulation
  • Adding delays to a simulation
    • Applying a delay to all responses
    • Applying a delay to specific responses
    • Applying different delays based on host
    • Applying different delays based on URI
    • Applying different delays based on HTTP method
    • Log-normal distributions of delay
  • Loose request matching using a Request Matcher
  • Using middleware to simulate network latency
  • Using middleware to modify response payload and status code
  • Simulating HTTPS APIs
  • Running Hoverfly as a webserver
  • Enable CORS support on Hoverfly
  • Capturing or simulating specific URLs
  • Capturing a stateful sequence of responses
• Advanced tutorials
  • Using Hoverfly behind a proxy
    • Configuring Hoverfly with a PAC file
    • Upstream proxy authentication
  • Controlling a remote Hoverfly instance with hoverctl
  • Enabling authentication for the Hoverfly proxy and API
    • Setting Hoverfly authentication credentials
    • Logging in to a Hoverfly instance with hoverctl
  • Configuring SSL in Hoverfly
    • Override default certificate for one-way SSL authentication
    • Configure Hoverfly for two-way SSL authentication