A Windows Named Pipe Http Echo Server
This little tool creates a Windows Named Pipe and listens for HTTP requests.
Request bodies will be returned with a prefix [echo].
Requests on /exit will stop the tool and remove the pipe.
The request method will be ignored, so you can use any of GET, POST or whatever.
This tool comes in handy when running integration tests. There’s no built-in way to create a named pipe in the JVM,
so you end up trying to create some JNI/JNA implementation
to make the syscall.aspx) for you…
or you use a native binary to handle everything for you and simply call it via exec.
You can find my own use case in the integration tests for the Docker Client.
As soon as the project is built on a Windows system, the integration tests verify
the basic ability to use a named pipe socket for communication with the Docker engine.
Since Windows Named Pipes are a Windows only concept (similar to Unix Domain Sockets), you would probably expect
Windows specific sources or build configurations. Thanks to Golang this isn’t necessary: the cross compiler
works very well and creates a nice Windows native executable. I’m a fan of automation, which is why
you’ll always find the most recent version of this tool on the Docker Hub, packaged as Docker image.
The Docker image isn’t expected to be run, but it serves to leverage the build and distribution of this tool.
See below for details!
go get -d github.com/gesellix/go-npipecd srcCGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=windows go build -o npipe.exe main.go
docker build -t npipe:local -f linux/Dockerfile .docker create --name npipe npipe:local# Or from the Docker Hub (linux):#docker create --name npipe gesellix/npipe# Or from the Docker Hub (windows):#docker create --name npipe gesellix/npipe:windowsdocker cp npipe:/npipe.exe .docker rm npipe
npipe.exe \\.\pipe\the_pipe
get-childitem \\.\pipe\
If you have any kind of feedback or would like to improve this little tool,
please submit an issue or create a pull request!