Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent by your Python code

Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by golergka on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:15PM (#41651962)

> If you're coding something up, why wouldn't you know that piece of code does a HTTP/s request?

Because tracing all side-effects in a huge codebase with a lot of libraries and layers can be a daunting task.

Update: if you haven't worked with 20 year old >1m LOC codebase which went through many different teams and doesn't have any documentation whatsoever, you may lack necessary perspective to see value tools like this.

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Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by ricardo81 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:19PM (#41652000)

Sounds like people dealing with code they have no idea what it does. No amount of tools are going to help with that.

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Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by actionfromafar on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:47PM (#41652206)

I think you attract downvotes because tools are helpful. If you have a huge unknown codebase, it can be nice to attack it from different angles. Reading code is useful, but observing what it does in runtime can be useful, too. Also, with hairier code, it can be more useful to first observe and prod it like a black box.

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Re:Show HN: Httpdbg – A tool to trace the HTTP requests sent... by ricardo81 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:54PM (#41652273)

Just the 1 downvote.

Yes, "tools are helpful", but whether there's a python/http specific tool that doesn't do what more generic tools do remains to be seen.

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