[hobbit] About Web monitor

[casedj]

Hi Ralph and Henrik,

Thanks for help.

Case
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] About Web monitor


> On 8/23/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:30PM +0800, case wrote:
>> > This's a browser/server architecture, we have Crystal Report 8  used(10.2.10.7).
>> > One IE browser with URL
>> > "10.2.10.7/tcard/tempSchl.rpt?user0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&password0 at c.rpt=rpt_read&user1=rpt_read&password1=rpt_read&init=actx"
>> > on client launched and called Crystal Report Viewer, a new IE window would be opened.
>> >
>> > How can we monitor this new IE window or content in this new IE window?
>>
>> It's difficult. What I normally do in these cases is to use something
>> like wireshark (ethereal) to trace the requests going to the server, and
>> see if I can just grab one of the pages without going through the whole
>> series of screens that the user does. If that is not possible, then the
>> only way forward is to write a script to mimic the behaviour of your
>> browser, which can be quite tricky to do - getting everything right with
>> dynamic URL's, Javascript "onLoad()" functions, cookies etc. can be a lot
>> of work.
> 
> There are a couple of tools that can help:
> 
> 1) LiveHTTPHeaders plugin for Firefox shows you exactly what headers
> flow between the browser and the server;
> 
> 2) curl is pretty good at grabbing web pages.  It has a library and
> extensions for using it within Perl, PHP, tcl, C, etc, as well as the
> command line version for use in shell scripts.
> 
> Ralph Mitchell
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