Selenium-rc: How do you use CaptureNetworkTraffic in python

Question

I've found many tutorials for selenium in java in which you first start selenium using s.start("captureNetworkTraffic=True"), but in python start() does not take any arguments.

How do you pass this argument? Or don't you need it in python?

Answer 1

I changed the start in selenium.py:

def start(self, captureNetworkTraffic=False):
    l = [self.browserStartCommand, self.browserURL, self.extensionJs]
    if captureNetworkTraffic:
        l.append("captureNetworkTraffic=true")
    result = self.get_string("getNewBrowserSession", l)

The you do:

sel = selenium.selenium('localhost', 4444, '*firefox', 'http://www.google.com')
sel.start(True)
sel.open('')
print sel.captureNetworkTraffic('json')

and it works like a charm

Answer 2

Start the browser in "proxy-injection mode" (note *pifirefox instead of *firefox). Then you can call the captureNetworkTraffic method.

import selenium
import time

sel=selenium.selenium("localhost",4444,"*pifirefox","http://www.google.com/webhp") 
sel.start()
time.sleep(1)
print(sel.captureNetworkTraffic('json'))

I learned the *pifirefox "trick" here.