zap

Why? When developing and testing code for Spring Data Elasticsearch I often use the OWASP ZAP proxy to monitor the data that is sent to and returned from Elasticsearch. I now had the situation that I needed to check how the library behaves when the server returns a code 429 (too many requests) status. Rather than trying to set up a test that tries to flood my local Elasticsearch instance, I decided to add a script to ZAP that automatically for a given percentage of requests returns that status.