Response Validation Tools

A response can be 200 OK and still be wrong. These analyzers look at the parts of a response that quietly break clients and security reviews: cookie flags, caching directives, security headers such as CSP and HSTS, and the status code itself.

The contract tools compare what an API actually returns with what it promised — a schema or an earlier response — and flag removed fields, changed types and other breaking changes before consumers find them.

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Analyze the HTTP status code and headers of a response and get an explanation of whether it is correct for the situation.

Validation Open tool

Parse Set-Cookie headers and check Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite, Domain, Path, expiry and size best practices.

Validation Open tool

Analyze Cache-Control, Expires, ETag, Last-Modified, Vary and Age headers and explain how browsers and CDNs will cache the response.

Validation Open tool

Grade HTTP security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, COOP/CORP) from pasted headers or a public URL.

Validation Open tool

Validate that an API request/response pair conforms to its OpenAPI contract: path, method, parameters, body and response schema.

Validation Open tool

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