Enhancement request: add flag --writeReqResp <dirName> to write out HTTP headers and OFX request/response - Githubissues

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Enhancement request: add flag --writeReqResp <dirName> to write out HTTP headers and OFX request/response #76

Closed hleofxquotes closed 4 years ago

hleofxquotes commented 4 years ago

Add option to ofxget to write request/response

HTTP request header
HTTP response header
OFX request
OFX response

to a specified directory. This will help new user to learn what was sent and what was returned from the OFX server.

For example

python ./ofxtools/scripts/ofxget.py  prof amex  --writeReqResp amex

Will write to directory 'amex' in current directory the following files

amex/request-001-http-request-headers.txt
amex/request-001-http-response-headers.txt
amex/request-001-ofx-request.txt
amex/request-001-ofx-response.txt

in case the 'action' such as (--all) has multiple requests, subsequent requests will get label

amex/request-002-http-request-headers.txt
amex/request-002-http-response-headers.txt
amex/request-002-ofx-request.txt
amex/request-002-ofx-response.txt and so on ...

csingley commented 4 years ago

ofxget already will dump the RQ/RS, basically:

ofxget stmt -n amex > amex/dummy-rq.ofx
ofxget stmt amex > amex/rs.ofx

Does this not suffice?

For the headers, I'd think it would be better to log them if desired... but they're not very interesting.

Cf. ofxtools.Client.OFXClient.http_headers(), line 257 et seq. If you're developing other OFX utilities, I guess what you're looking for is explained in the comment therein... blank User-Agent.