How to enable wire logging for a java HttpURLConnection traffic?

Question

I\'ve used Jakarta commons HttpClient in another project and I would like the same wire logging output but using the \"standard\" HttpUrlConnection.

I\'ve used Fiddl

Answer 1

On the off chance, that you're only interested in getting at the content on the wire (headers, body etc), you might want to give wireshark a go.

This has the advantage of not having to change any code, though if enabling logging through code was what you're after, this answer is not applicable.

Answer 2

In Linux you can run the VM under strace:

strace -o strace.out -s 4096 -e trace=network -f java ...