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Re: Debugging HTTP redirects



 Robert La Ferla wrote: 
> Anyone know of a browser plug-in, tool or even browser setting that 
> can help debug HTTP redirects on external sites?  e.g.  On the 
> external site, there is a form, when the form is submitted, it 
> redirects to a page that redirects to another page, etc...  I need to 
> slow down the redirects to analyze the redirect URLs, HTML, etc... 
> Can't just use wget/curl because of the form and I don't necessarily 
> have control over the site that I need to analyze. 
> 
The Wireshark (formerly known as Ethereal) protocol analyzer is great 
for such problems. The "follow TCP stream" right-click option when 
you're viewing results is an easy way to glue the individual packets 
into a coherent view you can look at and make sense of. 

Nathan 
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