Thank you for the advice and introduction to the forum rules. I "lowercased"
the subject.
As for the options available, we would like to avoid sending the same
request to the web server (Apache) if possible. Sure, LWP could emulate a
web client, but our goal is to fork the very same HTTP response that Apache
sends to the browser, into a file, rather than repeating the request. One of
the reasons being that as I mentioned, the data in the response can already
be different.
Thanks again.
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From: "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:46 AM
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] CAPTURING SERVER RESPONSE
Solutio at Gmail wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I wonder if there is a way to capture the entire Apache response,
including its body, on the server side, and store it in a file, so we
could check what the user actually gets by viewing the contents in a
browser? We keep requests for audit purposes, but the data changes
quickly, and the same request can result in a different response over
time. I looked for ideas on Google and CPAN, but haven't been able to
find any definite answer so far.
Hi.
First, just a small item relating to "etiquette" (politeness etc..) in
forums like this one : writing something in CAPITALS is generally
considered as equivalent to shouting. So it's not a very good idea to use
that in the subject of your posting.
About your question :
There are may ways to capture the response of a HTTP server. The easiest
ones consist of programs that can act as a "client" (like a browser), and
save the answer from the server to a disk file.
If you have perl installed wherever, I suggest to have a look at the
"lwp-request" command, which is very flexible and allows you to tailor
what you send to the server as well as what you want to see (or save) at
the client level.
In the simplest form :
lwp-request -m GET "http://www.myserver.com/myurl";
or
lwp-request -m GET "http://www.myserver.com/myurl"; > saved_file.html
I suggest the above because it will run on whatever platform, as long as
perl is inatalled on it.
There are a bunch of other programs that can do similar things, including
saving a whole website if you wish. Look at "curl", "wget" etc.. Their
availability may depend on the platform.
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