Need debugging help

[pedz]

This isn't a firebug problem I believe but I'm hoping you can help me out.

I have a web site where if I click on a particular "file", it briefly opens a new tab in Firefox and then the tab closes and presents me with a download dialog box.

The data I want is in the firebug window for the tab that was present briefly but has now disappeared.  Is there any way to either force Firefox to not open the new tab or force Fixfox not to close it?

What I'm trying to get are the http headers.  Its https with cookies so I can't use something like curl without a lot of effort.

Thank you,
Perry

[Christ van Willegen]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:49 PM, pedz <ped...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't a firebug problem I believe but I'm hoping you can help me out.

Perhaps you can use WireShark (if it's HTTP...) to capture the data streams?

Christ van Willegen
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[Erik Krause]

Am 06.10.2014 22:49, schrieb pedz:

> I have a web site where if I click on a particular "file", it briefly opens
> a new tab in Firefox and then the tab closes and presents me with a
> download dialog box.
>
> The data I want is in the firebug window for the tab that was present
> briefly but has now disappeared. Is there any way to either force Firefox
> to not open the new tab or force Fixfox not to close it?

Do you have a link? I have some ideas but need to verify them...

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Erik Krause
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[Perry Smith]

This particular web site is internal (and it also holds customer data).

I was musing that perhaps I could find another web site but now
that I start thinking about it, that might not be possible. It
seems like the javascript would have to be the one that is
closing the tab after it is opened....

It isn't my web site so I don't know the code, etc.

I am curious what you think might work. I can try it and see if it
does.

Thank you,
Perry

[Erik Krause]

Am 13.10.2014 21:57, schrieb Perry Smith:
> It
> seems like the javascript would have to be the one that is
> closing the tab after it is opened....
>
> It isn't my web site so I don't know the code, etc.
>
> I am curious what you think might work. I can try it and see if it
> does.

You already named it: Disable Javascript. For convenience you could
install https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/settingsanity/
since firefox doesn't have it in the options dialog any more.

If this doesn't work try to find the code which closes the tab in
firebug. Set a breakpoint before.

best regards
Erik