Could Appium monitor http requests?

[shuai sun]

Hi everyone,

        I am  testing an ios app, which communicates with remote server. 

        Is there any way to monitor http request it sends and receives?

        Thank you in advance!

       Shuai

[bootstrap online]

Appium doesn't have http monitoring built in.

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[shuai sun]

Thank you for saving me butch of time! Then I would look into instruments

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[David Luu]

You might be able to invoke instruments related network monitoring capabilities from Appium if the instruments tool offers a javascript API for that, in which case you can execute them via the JavascriptExecutor.

Other option is to route the app (via simulator/OS X networking or actual device networking) through a network proxy like Charles or Fiddler so that you can monitor traffic through that.

[Dan Cuellar]

I think this is getting outside of the scope of the Appium project, much in the same way that Selenium refuses to return HTTP status codes, I think if we got into the proxy server business that's a whole different project.

That being said, you could modify your Automation.tracetemplate to include the Networking widget that Instruments.app provides, and its output will be saved to the .trace file created by your script.

You could also setup a proxy on your device's wifi connection or on the machine running your simulator and pull the information that way.