Re: lynx-dev Linux question

[Klaus Weide]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote:

> Perhaps someone on the list can help me with the folowing situation:
> 
> I want to pass through several pages with forms heavy overloaded by
> JavaScript code. Forms action POST. No SSL.
> 
> I need to automate this procedure to get the result page via perl
> script. The simplest way seems to pass through manually using Netscape
> and capture HTTP traffic, than figure out which HTTP requests were sent,
> do some reverse engineering if necessary and submit the requests with
> perl.

or lynx.

> The question is how to capture the traffic?

Tcpdump!

or...

> This seems to be a
> proxy job but I have not figured out how to to this.

It depends on the proxy how much you can log.

Try junkbuster.  It seems to have what you want:

       -d N (Old) debug N (New)
              Set  debug  mode. [...]
         16 = Log everything (including debugging traces and  the
              contents  of  the pages)

   Klaus