[hobbit] - Internet sites testing

Gildas Le Nadan gn1 at sanger.ac.uk
Fri Dec 8 14:36:56 CET 2006


> If you must, then I'd suggest starting off with a network sniffer like
> Ethereal (it has a new name now, I think), and then doing a trace of all
> the requests that your browser performs. That will give you an idea of
> how much work is involved, from the number of requests that actually go
> out on the wire. Then you can start digging into each of the requests,
> and see if you can automate them using some scripting tool.

I would personally highly recommend ngrep and firefox's plugin 
livehttpheaders to trace the requests.

curl is your friend then.

Cheers
Gildas



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