Facing issue with running Hoverfly in simulate mode

[td-bhanunadar]

Hi Team,

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put my problem, guide me if this isn't the right place.

I'm running hoverfly in docker container with following config

hoverfly:

image: spectolabs/hoverfly:latest
restart: always
ports:
  - "8500:8500"
  - "8888:8888"
command:
  - -pp=8500
  - -ap=8888
  - -webserver
  - -v

I'm hitting the proxy using following curl

curl -v --proxy http://localhost:8500 http://dummy-dev.com/api/v1/dummypath

Output:

Docker Logs:

Simulation json:
simulation-dummy.json

Question:
What I'm doing wrong here, why Hoverfly forwarding my request in simulation mode, If for some reason it is a cache miss, I can't even able to see any entry in journal to fix this. Kindly Help.

Empty Journal.

[tommysitu]

@td-bhanunadar you are starting hoverfly with the - -webserver option which will not start a proxy. To fix it, you just need to remove this command.

To learn more about running hoverfly as a proxy, you can see here: https://docs.hoverfly.io/en/latest/pages/keyconcepts/proxyserver.html

[td-bhanunadar]

Hi @tommysitu , I want to run the hoverfly in simulation mode, My query is why it is acting as proxy instead of returning value from simulation. It is hitting the actual server

[td-bhanunadar]

Hi @tommysitu, any suggestions

[kapishmalik]

@td-bhanunadar If you are passing this option --webserver then there is no chance that it will hit actual server.
hoverfly -webserver -simulate -import simulation.json

[tommysitu]

Hi @td-bhanunadar I see, you are trying to use hoverfly as a webserver, so using -webserverflag in docker is ok then. However you are setting it as a proxy using curl: curl -v --proxy http://localhost:8500 http://dummy-dev.com/api/v1/dummypath which is not right.

if the hoverfly is running as webserver for simulating, you should call it directly: curl -v http://localhost:8500/api/v1/dummypath

[kapishmalik]

Oh thanks, I didn't notice that.