Recording Pages with the Proxy Server

Return now to your web browser and go to the following URL:

http://www.screen-scraper.com/tutorial/basic_form.php

If you take a look at screen-scraper you'll notice that it recorded this page in the "HTTP Transactions" table. If you click on the first row in the table information related to your browser's request and response will appear in the lower pane:

If you didn't see your page show up in the "HTTP Transactions" table, or if your browser seems to have trouble, take a look at this FAQ for help.

The lower pane shows the details of the HTTP request your browser made--the request line, any HTTP headers (including cookies), as well as POST data (if any was sent). You can view the corresponding response from the server by clicking on the "Response" tab. Don't worry if a lot of what you're seeing doesn't make much sense; for the most part screen-scraper takes care of these kinds of details for you (such as keeping track of cookies).

At this point, in your web browser, type "Hello world!" (without the quotes) into the form text box and click the "Submit" button. This simply submits the form using the GET method to this same page, and displays what you typed in. We now have all of the pages we need recorded, so click on the "General" tab in screen-scraper then click on the "Stop Proxy Server" button. Now might also be a good time to adjust your web browser so that it no longer uses screen-scraper as a proxy server.