Making it useful

Played a bit more the the small web developer's toolkit in my last post. This time in a real-world production setting.

Although other tools could have given the answer as well it was kinda fun to watch this work:

$ proxy --port 8082 | log | connect | respond -e | log

proxy: Proxy started at http://macbook.local:8082/
[14:41:26] GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.1 -> [14:41:27] HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
[14:41:27] GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1 -> [14:41:28] HTTP/1.1 302 Found
[14:41:28] GET http://www.google.com.au/ HTTP/1.1 -> [14:41:28] HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[...]

The "log" command is just printing out interesting things it sees -- by default the request and response lines and adds a timestamp.  In real life I wasn't debugging Google BTW. :-)