Re: [Http-webtest-general] Recorder

[Ilya M. <il...@ip...>]

>>>>> "TY" == Tolga Yalcinkaya <tya...@ya...> writes:

TY> Hi Ilya,
TY> I noticed that in the CVS repository, there is a
TY> package called "Recorder."  Can you tell us a little
TY> bit about the package, the architecture, and when it
TY> would be available.

This is a web proxy which can

1) record all HTTP requests/responses passed through it
2) show them via web interface
3) autogenerate a skeleton of wtscript file

It is not unfinished but already usable.  If you want to play with it
get it from CVS, install with perl Makefile.PL; make install and run
installed rec-proxy script (it is even have some docs so man rec-proxy
after installation will work). Then configure your browser to use
http://localhost:8000 as a http proxy. If configured
http://ANYDOAIN/webtest/list will show the web interface of Recorder
where you can turn on/off recording, see recorded requests/responses
and generate a wtscript file.

As for architecture the proxy itself is based on POE and its web
interface implemented in MVC style using Template::Toolkit and
CGI.pm. It is quite modular so it should be possible to add in the
future alternative frontends (I personally very interested in XUL
based frontend).

On avialability I cannot make exact predictions. Currently I work on
this project in my unpaid free time and as usual it is quite limited
resource :(. My todo list for the first release is rather short
though:

1) add configurable filters to recorder so it will be possible to
   exclude certaint requests/responses from recorded sequence (usually
   you are not very interested in pics and css files for example)

2) allow to edit recorded sequence (delete requests/responses)

3) make wtscript generator more intelligent (currently it only
   generates test blocks with 'url', 'method', 'params' test params
   and does support HTTP auth, cookies and many other features
   supported by HTTP::WebTest itself)

4) more pretty UI

5) in general make it useable enough so I can record functional tests
   for web interface of Recorder itself.



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