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Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by judofyr on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:43PM (#41651662)
Looks neat!

A similar tool for this would be VCR (originally built in Ruby, but ported to other languages since): https://vcrpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. This injects itself into the request pipeline, records the result in a local file which can then also be replayed later in tests. It's a quite nice approach when you want to write tests (or just explore) a highly complicated HTTP API without actually hitting it all the time.

Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by seanc on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:48PM (#41651707)
The inspection and debugging features this offers are great additions though. I've stared at VCR yaml enough times to not want to ever do it again.
Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by cle-b on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:56PM (#41651783)
I really like vrcpy. I used it a lot with pytest in my previous job. httpdbg isn’t exactly the same; the idea is more about seeing HTTP requests in real-time and being able to easily study them.