My favourite tool for debugging HTTP requests is Charles Proxy: http://www.xk72.com/charles/ - Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X
Gives you a true view of what's going on as it sits between your web browser and the web server, intercepting all of the traffic flowing between them and letting you view every element of the request and the response.
If you're using Windows then a free tool called Fiddler does nearly as much: http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
hth
Gareth
On Jan 21, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Mark Rogers wrote:
Does anyone know of a way from within Firefox that I can capture a sequence of redirects and work out what's happening?
I can use wget and see a sequence of 301/302 redirects that way, but I need to do this within a session so I really need to follow it in Firefox. Or Opera/IE I suppose (all on Ubuntu 8.04).
Something obscure is happening on one of my sites when I follow an HTTPS link which is causing it to redirect back to HTTP, which is probably something to do with something in the session that I'm not getting chance to investigate. Therefore the ability not just to capture the sequence but also to step through it would be helpful.
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