Debugging HTTP redirects

Jack Daniel jdaniel at MASSBUY.com
Wed Oct 31 08:22:04 EDT 2007


> 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.
> 
I usually just run Wireshark and follow the traffic to find redirects, etc.
If that isn't enough, I fire up a local proxy like Paros to look into the
encrypted traffic.

Jack

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