Listen to all http requests coming from an R session? about httpuv HOT 5 CLOSED

You want to intercept and inspect the http requests coming out of an R process, no matter what code originated them or what host they're going to?

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Yeah, its the same concept as this chrome plugin https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-http-headers/iaiioopjkcekapmldfgbebdclcnpgnlo - trying to make a shiny app that will listen via httpuv for http requests and display them so users can inspect all their requests - not sure if this is possible though.

The use case is that I want a viewer for https://github.com/ropenscilabs/vcr users to inspect all their http requests via files on the file system that define http request and response fields . This is straightforward.

However, I thought to make it more general it would be nice to optionally listen for all http requests made from R (or some subset defined by the user, either port or host specific, etc.) - this is the hard part

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@jcheng5 any thoughts on this? i'm also trying to port the Ruby library https://github.com/bblimke/webmock - which takes the approach of listening to http request made in the ruby session - would be interested to know if you think this is doable

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Closing because this is out of scope for httpuv.

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sounds good, figured out the right (and different) approach

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