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

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Eran Medan picture Eran Medan · May 31, 2012 · Viewed 31k times · Source

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 HttpClient?

I found some "almost" duplicate questions, but not for this particular one

Answer

Yser picture Yser · Feb 21, 2014

You can set some environment variables for Apache HttpClient (example tested for 4.3.2).

System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log","org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.wire", "DEBUG");

There are also some more variables for debugging:

System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.impl.conn", "DEBUG");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.impl.client", "DEBUG");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.client", "DEBUG");
System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http", "DEBUG");

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