Simulating a remote website locally for testing

Question

I am developing a browser extension. The extension works on external websites we have no control over.

I would like to be able to test the extension. One of the major pr

Answer 1

I assume you want to serve a remote site that's not under your control. In that case you can use a proxy server and have that server cache every response aggressively. However, this has it's limits. First of all you will have to visit every site you intend to use through this proxy (with a browser for example), second you will not be able to emulate form processing.

Alternatively you could use a spider to download all content of a certain website. Depending on the spider software, it may even be able to download JavaScript-built links. You then can use a webserver to serve that content.