Get response/request Header information

[tx12345]

hi

is there some VB code that can record the request/response header information? i am only intersted in the GET part of it if that makes it easier.

[Phil Weber]

Unless the app whose messages you want to record is using your VB code to communicate, I don't know of any way to record the header information. There are, however, numerous third-party tools that allow you to monitor and/or log network traffic.

[tx12345]

right, i am aware of the thrid party tools. i use one called softx logger. it creates a log that contains information like this:

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GET /articles/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Host: www.awardspace.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.0 302
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:33:55 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.awardspace.com/about_us.html
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html


GET /about_us.html HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Host: www.awardspace.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
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there is also another IE plug in called DebugBar V4.02 which gets the same info. so my feeling is there is probably a way to code VB to get the same information.

third party stuff requires the client to download and install something. not a good alternative. there has to be a way for VB to collect this information.