Re: [Http-webtest-general] Recorder

[Dr. T. Y. <tya...@ya...>]

Ilya,

Wow... This is very exciting!

Thank you very much for the detailed information.

I am curious though, how you are planning to handle
HTTPS traffic...  Any thoughts?

Tolga


--- Ilya Martynov <il...@ip...> wrote:
> >>>>> "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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ilya Martynov,  il...@ip...
> CTO IPonWEB (UK) Ltd
> Quality Perl Programming and Unix Support
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