Key Concepts

Hoverfly’s functionality is quite broad. You are encouraged to take the time to understand these key concepts before jumping into the Tutorials.

• Hoverfly as a proxy server
  • Using a proxy server
  • The difference between a proxy server and a webserver
• Hoverfly as a webserver
• Hoverfly modes
  • Capture mode
  • Simulate mode
  • Synthesize mode
  • Modify mode
• Simulations
  • Request Responses Pairs
  • Delays
  • Meta
• Matching strategies
  • Strongest Match
  • First Match
• Caching
  • Caching matches
  • Caches misses
  • Header caching
  • Eager caching
  • Cache invalidation
• Templating
  • Enabling Templating
  • Available Data
  • Conditional Templating, Looping and More
• State
  • Requiring State in order to Match
  • Setting State when Performing a Match
  • Managing state via Hoverctl
• Destination filtering
• Middleware
  • Local Middleware
  • HTTP Middleware
  • Middleware Interface
• Hoverctl