I'm trying to access HTTP header information when website POST or GET.Request send in JSON format.

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Hi All,I'm trying to access HTTP header information when website do a POST or GET.Request send in JSON format. on POST request I can see all required information under Network--&gt;Headers--&gt;Request Payload (using chrome dev tool) but I canno't figure it out how to read these information using Testcomplete (use TC 11.1).I tried with following way but was not success.var page = Sys.Browser("Chrome").Page(baseurl &amp; format=json");var http1 = page.contentDocument&nbsp;Information what I need to read highlighted in attached screen.Please let me know if you have any solution. Thanks in advance.&nbsp;Thanks-Sam

cunderw · Answer

I had to do something similar. Here is what worked for me.Hopefully this will help. This is in JScript.&nbsp;&nbsp;function httpRequest(method, URL) {
  var XmlHttpRequest = Sys["OleObject"]("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP");
  XmlHttpRequest.open(method, URL, false);
  XmlHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "json");
  try {
    XmlHttpRequest.send();
  }
  catch (err) {
    Log.Error(err);
  }
  //XmlHttpRequest.responseText returns JSON object
  try {
    return XmlHttpRequest.responseText;
  }
  catch (err) {
    Log.Error(err);
  }
}You can then use the following to get the JSON info into an array that you can work with.&nbsp;var json = JSON.parse(httpRequest("method","http://someurl"));
json[i].property.

colin_mccrae · Answer

I'm not sure you can do that from TestComplete.&nbsp;All the responses relate to using an HTTP object you create yourself. Which, as we've said, you can control the headers of and check the response properties of.&nbsp;What you want to do is intercept the HTTP object generated and sent by a webpage. Something like Fiddler, you can do this. But if TestComplete has a way of intercepting POST info from a webpage in a similar way, I'm not aware of it.&nbsp;Canvases are pretty much impossible to do much with. It's just an image file. You may be better pixel sampling the onscreen colours to check if things change colour as and when you expect to. There have been a couple of such pixel sampling routines posted on here recently.&nbsp;There are a couple of links/examples on here: http://community.smartbear.com/t5/Desktop-Testing/How-do-I-get-forground-and-background-colour-of-a-text-object/m-p/107434

colin_mccrae · Answer

Headers are a property of the HTTP object. Not something you can access directly from TC as standard as far as I know.&nbsp;You can create your own HTTP object in script:&nbsp;https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms766431(v=vs.85).aspx&nbsp;Set the body and header properties of that and interrogate the body and header of the response. If it's sending JSON back and forth, sounds more like a webservice you're dealing with.

tanyayatskovska · Answer

Hi Samithak,
&nbsp;
You can try using the XMLHTTPRequest object to accomplish your task. Refer to the Preparing SOAP Requests in Scripts ( http://smartbear.com/viewarticle/70743/ ) article to learn how to use it.
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colin_mccrae · Answer

Tanya - does that work with JSON? All the ref material seems to refer to XML?&nbsp;Just that to get the response, he'll probaby have to generate the request himself as well, and it sounds like it's using JSON. I know the MS ServerXMLHTTP object I linked to above handles JSON just fine, despite the name (and lack of any mention of JSON in the docs for it).

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