Simple tool to dump HTTP requests to files, which can then be examined to see what data a HTTP client is sending. Files are stored in /cached_requests directory
Copy the files to your web server note the web root should be set to the public folder with
the rest of the files above the web root. You'll also need to install composer
I recommend installing it globally so you dont have multiple copies
hanging around your system unless you specifically need to.
Once compose is installed in the projects root directory run composer install to pull in the projects
dependancies which are basically Slim, Twig, Yaml and Monolog.
In a terminal window cd into the public directory and run the following to run up a basic web server on your machine on port 8080
cd public
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
In another terminal window run the following which sends a PUT request with some form params
curl -X PUT "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" \
-H "X-Test-Header: test value" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
--data-raw "p2"="v2" \
--data-raw "pa1[]"="va1" \
--data-raw "pa1[]"="va2" \
--data-raw "p1"="v1"
You'll note the response from the request is a JSON structure as we set the Accept header to application/json if not supplied or set to text/html an HTML response is given, if set to text/xml an XML response is given
Finally take a look in the cache directory at the *.txt files
cd cached_requests
more *.txt
- On GET request show recent requests and allow exploring older ones saved in files rather than having to look at the files in the terminal
- Live update the GET view as new POST/DELETE/PUT/OPTIONS requests come in
- Implement named endpoints to collect related requests together