emulating LiveHTTPheader in server side script or javascript?

Question

Hi folks,

I ran into this problem when scraping sites with heavy usage of javascript to obfuscate it's data.

For example,

"a href="javascript:void(0)" onClick="grabData(23)"> VIEW DETAILS

This href attribute, reveals no information about the actual URL. You'd have to manually look and examine the grabData() javascript function to get a clue.

OR

The old school way is manually opening up Live HTTP header add on for firefox, and monitoring the POST perimeters, which reveals the actual URL being POSTed.

So i'm wondering, is there a way to capture the POST parameters in a server side script or Javscript, as Live HTTP header does, for the outgoing and incoming POST parameters? This would make even the most javscript obfuscated web pages easily scrapable.

thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand the question but...

In PHP, incoming POST parameters are stored in the $_POST array, you can display them with print_r($_POST);.