Using Apache HTTPClient - how can one see the raw request string before it's being sent?

Question

For debugging purposes, I\'d like to see the raw request that is going to be sent. Is there a way to get this without a HTTP monitor directly from the API of HttpPost or Htt

Answer 1

Try this:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url);

method.setParameter(...., ....);

to retrieve the URI

System.out.println("getUri: " + method.getURI());

to retrieve the parameters in POST

method.getRequestEntity().writeRequest(System.out);