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[emonk]

 Any of you guys used HTTP-Recorder? I've been trying to get it to work for weeks, as the majority of the things I write a website interaction scripts of one type or another, but I can't find any version of it that works, and the SVN is borked.

 So my question is: Does anyone know a way to make ANY version of HTTP-Recorder work (including SSL)? Failing that does anyone know of an alternative (especially one that spit's out PHP curl code instead, but whatever)?

[dirk]

Hi emonk,

just tested it and installed HTTP::Proxy and HTTP::Recorder via:

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTTP::Proxy
install HTTP::Recorder

Took a while because there are lots of dependencies.

Then I started a simple test script which I got here:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/06/04/recorder.html
Use It with a Web Proxy

It was running fine and recorded the session.

[nop_90]

I find it easier to just look at the forms and use perl mechanize now days.
I think you are better off to use liveheader plugin for FF (I think IE has a similar type plugin)
Then it not too difficult to make a simple parse that parses the liveheaders and then makes proper fields to use with LWP.

[emonk]

Hi emonk,

just tested it and installed HTTP::Proxy and HTTP::Recorder via:

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install HTTP::Proxy
install HTTP::Recorder

Took a while because there are lots of dependencies.

Then I started a simple test script which I got here:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/06/04/recorder.html
Use It with a Web Proxy

It was running fine and recorded the session.

 Which version did you use? Everyone all over the internet has been complaining about the "Can't locate object method "query_param."" error, and the only fix involves the SVN code, but the SVN repository is down.

 The only version I could find without that error, wouldn't work on SSL sites.

 I've really tried everything that I could think of, and googled my brains out, but to no avail.

 I was really just mostly hoping that either someone had the SVN code lying around, or knew of an alternative that did something similar like the script that nop_90 describes.

 I guess I'll just have to code something myself.

[dirk]

This is the version I have used:

package HTTP::Recorder;
our $VERSION = "0.05";
Date: 18 Aug 2005

Maybe the following fix will help:

http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/http-recorder/2007-October/000083.html

[dimitry12]

I find it easier to just use perl wsp now days. (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/wsp/)

[emonk]

I find it easier to just use perl wsp now days. (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/wsp/)

 Thanks mayne. I'll give it a go.

[Bompa]

I find it easier to just use perl wsp now days. (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/wsp/)

What does that do that liveheaders doesn't do?  Or is it just easier as you said?

Live headers generates every POST and GET in a file that I can save to disk with one click

[dimitry12]

It generates the Perl code that replicates that specific browser behavior.

Though it's not the most important point. It's a simple proxy in fact so you don't need to use FF or browser - just a convenient tool that does its job well.