Bug#749967: RFP: browsermob-proxy -- BrowserMob Proxy is a free utility to help web developers watch and manipulate network traffic from their AJAX applications.

[Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : browsermob-proxy
  Version         : 2.0 beta 9 (released November 16, 2013)
  Upstream Author : Patrick Lightbody <splightbody@newrelic.com>
* URL             : http://bmp.lightbody.net/
* License         : Apache 2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : BrowserMob Proxy is a free utility to help web developers watch and manipulate network traffic from their AJAX applications.

BrowserMob Proxy is a specialized proxy server commonly used with the Selenium web browser automator to write test cases for HTTP return codes etc. Python bindings for both Selenium and BrowserMob Proxy are already available through pip, but BrowserMob Proxy itself has to be installed separately.

You can read more about the need for BrowserMob Proxy in this blog post, particularly the last paragraph: http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2012/07/webdriver-y-u-no-have-http-status-codes.html