Saving logs to the disk

You may need to save all intercepted HTTP traffic to disk in order to analyze it in the feature or simply to have a copy of this data. There are several options available to you:

Save Summary - exports the summary of all intercepted HTTP traffic into a flat TXT file that can be opened in Notepad or a data analyzing program like Microsoft Excel.

The summary also can be exported directly to Microsoft Excel.

Save Selected Item - saves a single HTTP transaction (request/response pair) into one single file. This is useful for analyzing and fixing problems with a particular HTTP request or response and for learning how HTTP works. If the HTTP content contains an image, flash movie or any other binary data then you need a hex viewer in order to open this file, otherwise it can be opened in Notepad. HTTP Debugger processes and removes chunked and gzip encodings before saving this log file.

Save All - exports all intercepted HTTP traffic into one single file. This file may contain binary data (images, flash movies etc.) and can be viewed in special programs, such as hex viewers.

Save Header and Content Decoded - is similar to Save Selected Item except that it produces two files, one for HTTP requests and one for HTTP responses.

Save Header and Content RAW - is similar to Save Selected Item except that it also produces two files, one for HTTP requests and one for HTTP responses and that it does not process and remove the chunked and gzip encodings. This may be useful for software developers and network/system administrators.

Save Content Decoded - saves data found in HTTP request/response content in two files. This may be a submitted HTML form or an uploaded image file, or it can be a received web page, Java/VB script, styleshit etc. For example, if the HTTP response content contains a GIF image, then you can rename the saved 'response_decoded.log' to 'my_image.gif' and open this picture in your web browser.

HTTP Debugger tries to determinate the content type by analyzing the value for 'Content-Type:' parameter of the HTTP header and giving the appropriate extension to these files. If for some reason it cannot determinate the content type, then it gives the default '.log' extension to these files. HTTP Debugger processes and removes chunked and gzip encodings before saving these log files.

Save Content RAW - is similar to Save Content Decoded except that it does not process and remove the chunked and gzip encodings. This may be useful for software developers and network/system administrators.


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