the apothecary

v1.7.0

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mountebank v1.7.0 no longer supports node v0.10 or v0.12. This corresponds to the node community's LTS schedule.

New Features

• Added an mb save command to persist the existing configuration of imposters
• Added the ability to add latency to saved responses from proxies based on the actual time it took to call the downstream endpoint
• Added the ability to override the default response for imposters, including overriding the default Connection: close http header
• Added a --noParse command line option that prevents parsing config files as templates
• Added a --nologfile command line parameter to prevent logging to the filesystem
• Allow changing the cipher for https proxies

Bug Fixes

• An xpath exists predicate will return true if the XML tag exists, even if it does not have any text data.
• Fix Content-Length header if a decorate behavior changes it from the original
• Fix repeat behavior when used with headers
• Fix repeat behavior so that it loops back to the beginning of the responses array when it reaches the end, to keep it consistent with the circular buffer behavior
• Fixed missing documentation, including on the contracts page
• Don't default to chunked encoding on http proxy calls

Many thanks to the following kind folk for help with this release:

• Andrew

Install

npm install -g mountebank@1.7.0

or:

Option	node.js required?	sudo required?	links	Description
Self-contained archives	No	No	osx linux x86 linux x64 win x86* win x64*	Simply unpack and run mb from inside
OS-specific packages	No	Yes	pkg rpm deb	Puts mb at /usr/local/bin, which is generally in the PATH.
source tarball	Yes	No	mb	source tarball if you roll that way.

Windows path limitations

^*mountebank wishes very much for your Windows experience to be hassle-free, but he is simply not qualified to address a particular constraint of Windows Explorer. For legacy reasons, some Windows applications, including most notably Windows Explorer, have a maximum number of characters allowed in a path of 260 characters. As mountebank writes these words, the longest path he includes in the zip files is around 175 characters. The zip file name, which is likely to represent itself as two nested directories if you use the defaults to unzip it, will be around 25 characters. That gives you very little wiggle room. If you unzip the file in your users directory, you may very likely get an error because of this constraint.

The following solutions will all work:

• Unzip to the root of your C: drive (or a similar small path)
• Use 7zip to unzip the file instead of Windows Explorer
• Use npm to install mountebank instead of the zip file