[Catalyst] Repeatedly creating sessions

[David Schmidt]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Nicholas Wehr
<catalyst at bionikchickens.com> wrote:
> I see - sounds really cool and I fell into using firebug before I really got
> a chance to use it to it's fullest. firebug also allows for javascript
> debugging which was pretty critical for me, since I'm kind of a debugger
> junkie ;)
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, James Spath <jspath at pangeamedia.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Matthias Dietrich <mdietrich at cpan.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Nicholas,
>> >
>> > Am 24.06.2010 um 18:54 schrieb Nicholas Wehr:
>> >
>> >> I used charles proxy as well until I discovered how awesome the mozilla
>> >> addon firebug is. unbeatable json (xhdr) and network activity analyzer.
>> >> handles ssl too check it out!
>> >>
>> >> jim, is there a charles feature that stands out above firebug? I only
>> >> used for one project until I re-discovered firebug...
>> >
>> > I haven't bought Charles yet but used it for a longer time.  A big plus
>> > is that you can display the content depending on its type (eg. JSON and AMF
>> > as collapsable tree, but doesn't has a display mode for every type, I
>> > guess).  And it's browser independent so you can test with Safari and other
>> > clients (like native apps!), too.  You can record transferred data, stop
>> > recording, open new sessions while the old ones are still present.  If FF
>> > crashes or you navigate to a different page, Charles is still there and
>> > showing the recorded and opened sessions.
>> >
>> > Firebug is nice for single request tracking (yes, you can let the
>> > requests be "sticky", but that's not the same and a bit ugly, even sometimes
>> > it doesn't show the content if there's some), CSS, Javascript and HTML, but
>> > if you need to debug more intensive and longer I would prefer something like
>> > Charles.
>>
>> What Matthias said :)
>>
>> The biggest features for me are a full history beyond the current page
>> load ... and also the ability to redirect requests to different
>> servers or even to a local file on your machine.
>>
>> Don't get me wrong, I use Firebug all the time, but Charles definitely
>> has its uses.
>>
>> - Jim
>>
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With http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite you can debug on other browsers aswell.

david


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