[TIP] Capture HTTP traffic

[Michael Foord]

On 04/11/2010 17:32, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 17:03 +0100, Alex wrote:
>> 2010/11/3 Olemis Lang<olemis at gmail.com>:
>>> Probably I didn't understand your original question . If that's the
>>> case , please tell so that we can refine the answer .
>> I am writing the test of a C++ application. I have access the C++
>> source code but prefer not to alter it.
>>
>> 2010/11/3 Olemis Lang<olemis at gmail.com>:
>>> Fiddler : A really good proxy for dev-ing with scripting
>>>                support (Python ?) , pause , stop , replay ,
>>>                request builder, plugin system,
>>>                programmatic API ... for Windows
>>>                AFAIK (if you find a -multiplatform ?-
>>>                FOSS alternative please let me know)
>> This is what I am trying but not yet have a conclusion.
>>
>>> wsgi_intercept : To intercept HTTP requests
>>> twill | mechanize : For high-level HTTP commands (and more ...)
>> The target to be tested is a C++ application, so  Python tools like
>> wsgi_intercept, twill, mechanize do not apply.
>>
>>> Integrating pycap is really not trivial, IMO .
>> That's why I am looking for some alternatives here.
>>
>> 2010/11/3 C. Titus Brown<ctb at msu.edu>:
>>> you could write a simple HTTP server of your own, and run it in another
>>> thread.  That doesn't help if you need to call remote URLs, though.
>> It requires a lot of work to mock the HTTP server. Besides, I need
>> some reliable mechanism to redirect the HTTP requests issued by the
>> test target (C++ application) to 'localhost'.
> you might want to either hijac the hosts configuration on the test
> system or just use a selective transparent proxying scheme
>

This looks like an interesting project:

     https://code.google.com/p/twistedsim/

TwistedSim enables the user to run his code in a reproducible network 
environment.

It may be Python specific though.

Michael

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