Dump HTTP request details to local files

Simple tool to dump HTTP requests to files, which can then be examined to see what data a HTTP client is sending. Files are stored in /cached_requests directory

Installation

Copy the files to your web server note the web root should be set to the public folder with the rest of the files above the web root. You'll also need to install composer I recommend installing it globally so you dont have multiple copies hanging around your system unless you specifically need to. Once compose is installed in the projects root directory run composer install to pull in the projects dependancies which are basically Slim, Twig, Yaml and Monolog.

Give it a quick go locally with PHP's built in web server

In a terminal window cd into the public directory and run the following to run up a basic web server on your machine on port 8080

    cd public
    php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

In another terminal window run the following which sends a PUT request with some form params

    curl -X PUT "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8" \
        -H "X-Test-Header: test value" \
        -H "Accept: application/json" \
        --data-raw "p2"="v2" \
        --data-raw "pa1[]"="va1" \
        --data-raw "pa1[]"="va2" \
        --data-raw "p1"="v1"

You'll note the response from the request is a JSON structure as we set the Accept header to application/json if not supplied or set to text/html an HTML response is given, if set to text/xml an XML response is given

Finally take a look in the cache directory at the *.txt files

     cd cached_requests
     more *.txt

TODO very soon

• On GET request show recent requests and allow exploring older ones saved in files rather than having to look at the files in the terminal

Nice TODO future features

• Live update the GET view as new POST/DELETE/PUT/OPTIONS requests come in
• Implement named endpoints to collect related requests together