Can a HAR be generated when running an automated test using dalekjs.

[Balaji Govindarajulu]

Hi

I am a newbie to dalekjs. Can a HAR file be generated for network requests and responses when running a test.

Thanks,

Balaji

[asciidisco]

Hey.

The nature of Webdriver (the protocol Dalek is using to interact with its Browsers) forbids to access network stats & header access by design.

This is the fact, because the protocol designers want it clear that you should only simulate user interactions a "regular" page visitor could perform.

If you want to access the network stack, you have to use a proxy.

With Chrome you can configure this using flags: See https://github.com/dalekjs/dalek-browser-chrome#launch-chrome-with-flags-enabled & http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

If you want to do this with PhantomJS, you have to patch the PhantomJS driver here: https://github.com/dalekjs/dalek-browser-phantomjs/blob/master/index.js#L301

Args can be found here: http://phantomjs.org/api/command-line.html

Your best bet to generate HAR files then would be using BrowserMob Proxy: http://bmp.lightbody.net/

We have plans to include this functionality in future versions of Dalek directly, but this isn't an easy thing to do, if you keep in mind that

you have to support https & spdy. So it will take some time before we are able to ship it.

Cheers

Sebastian

[Balaji Govindarajulu]

Hi Sebastian,

Thank you very much for the reply and your time.

Thanks,

Balaji Govindarajulu.