HTTP Session Logging

Demonstrates how to use the SessionLogFilename property to log HTTP requests and responses to a file.

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import sys
import chilkat

http = chilkat.CkHttp()

#  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
success = http.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print http.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Set the SessionLogFilename property so that the Chilkat HTTP component
#  logs the exact HTTP requests and responses to a log file.

#  The SessionLogFilename may be used with any of the HTTP
#  methods for sending GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc.
http.put_SessionLogFilename("c:/temp/httpSessionLog.txt")

#  Try a simple HTTP GET and then examine the session log:

html = http.quickGetStr("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/httpTest/abc.html")
if (html == None ):
    print http.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

#  Here are the contents of the session log file after doing
#  the GET request:

#  
---- Sending ----
GET /httpTest/abc.html HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
User-Agent: Chilkat/1.0.0 (+http://www.chilkatsoft.com/ChilkatHttpUA.asp)
Host: www.chilkatsoft.com
Connection: Keep-Alive


---- Received ----
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 37
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:55:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "4eecd499df78ca1:28b"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:15:50 GMT

<html>
<body>
ABC
</body>
</html>

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