[Tfug] Eclipse add-ons

[Leo Przybylski]

Maybe instead build a mirror of the update sites you care about.

Leo

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
>
> On 6/6/2013 5:12 PM, Leo Przybylski wrote:
>>
>> What you could do is setup a proxy and configure Eclipse to use the
>> proxy. Then the proxy could just dump it's request information. You
>> could leave the proxy disconnected as well. This would simulate the
>> same behavior as the machine being completely disconnected because it
>> still is. Only you have a proxy logging all the request traffic. You
>> could alternatively configure the proxy to log traffic from the
>> Eclipse user agent to a special location somewhere.
>
>
> Yes, this is comparable to just watching network traffic.
> The problem with both approaches is they assume the client
> (Eclipse) is just going to do a blind "GET", or equivalent.
> I.e., if there is some interaction between the client and
> the "server", all I would see is the initial request from
> the client -- nothing beyond that.
>
> E.g., if the protocol was:
>
> client:  "Hi!"
> server:  "Hello.  Who (what) are you?"
> client:  "I'm Eclipse 4.2.blahblah"
> server:  "OK, 4.2.blahblah... what can I do for you?"
> client:  "What versions of package <fuggle> do you have?"
> ...
>
> then all I would be able to capture would be "Hi!".  :<
>
> I.e., to get beyond this, the proxy would have to chat
> with the actual server so that the complete conversation
> can be observed (in which case, why bother observing it
> since the client will now *have* what it needs).
>
> I was hoping for some log file that said "attempt to
> GET <url> failed..."
>
> (alternatively, an understanding of the various details
> embedded in the archives themselves that would enable me to
> act AS IF i was the client.  E.g., contents.jar/xml seems to
> call out the provides/requires of the archive in question
> but, so far, I haven't been able to get from there to a
> concrete URL...)
>
>
> --don
>
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