tool discovery: request inspector

I’ve been building a form with Paperform recently and was exploring how to use their webhook on submission. The idea is that I can send a form submission to my server to process the submission. However, before I make this endpoint public to the world, I want to validate that the request that comes through is actually from Paperform. To do that, I needed a test request to inspect. More than that, I wanted a way to catch the request without building out all of the logic to support it - i.e., I wanted to test this before I wrote a single line of code on the server, let alone deploy it.

That’s where RequestInspector.com comes in. It’s a simple tool that does a few things well:

• Provides an endpoint (vanity or generated)
• Displays request headers and body, including pretty JSOn and gunzip for the body.
• Limited retained history - striking a balance between being able to go back, and not having to clean up aft

Et voilá! When you need to quickly inspect what an endpoint is providing, RequestInspector.com is pretty great.