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From: Jean Marie COUPRIE <abies20_at_neuf.fr>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:50:43 +0100

From: Alessandro Vesely
> in liveHTTPHeaders apparently some or some other scripts are missing
> and I cannot discover how some fields are generated... Do you know a
> way to UN hide them ?

Nope. As the name suggests, liveHTTPHeaders shows headers _live_,
therefore you didn't get the scripts when you were browsing. Those
script didn't run on your client.

From: Doug McNutt
At 20:34 +0100 11/13/07, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> > in liveHTTPHeaders apparently some or some other scripts are missing
>> and I cannot discover how some fields are generated... Do you know a
>> way to UN hide them ?
>
>Nope. As the name suggests, liveHTTPHeaders shows headers _live_,
>therefore you didn't get the scripts when you were browsing. Those
>script didn't run on your client.

LiveHTTP headers has an option to suppress headers that refer to
selected file types using regular expressions. It's possible that
requests for *.js are being suppressed along with *.gif and *,png which
I think are suppressed by default.

It's also possible to deliver cookies with a *.gif that is really a web
bug. In the worst case it's better to turn off all suppression in
LiveHTTP headers and work through the whole session with a text editor.

It's usually possible to use curl itself to download a *.js file to your
machine so you can look at it.

***
What I have done is :
-record with liveHTTPHeaders during the Firefox session and save the log
and close it. I have some "GET" headers.
-open the log with an editor and a session of firefox on an other screen
and for each "GET" transfer the URL in the address bar of firefox to
load the file and save it for further examination. I have done this for
all the "GET" pointing to .js and some .jpg or .tiff (but they showed as
images.
-loaded with FF the source of the page for logon.
-in the POST part of liveHTTPHeaders I have my userid and password as
usual + 2 fields "text.1=nm" and "text.2=pq", I assume that they are
generated by the OK button that has name=text in its input line in the
source but I cannot find "text" (except in the source of the page) nm or
pq in what I have downloaded... How are they generated? "text" is fixed,
  n, m, p, and q variable numbers...
Received on 2007-11-14