Debugging HTTP redirects

Gregory Boyce gboyce at badbelly.com
Wed Oct 31 10:09:13 EDT 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> 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.

Paros proxy or spike would work.  They act as proxy servers between your 
browser and the website, and capture all network traffic.  They even do 
SSL if you accept the browser warning.

http://www.parosproxy.org/

http://www.immunitysec.com/resources-freesoftware.shtml

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