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I'd love to be able to use HTTP Digest auth with Poster.

Hi,

I assume you had a good reason for removing the sidebar, so this might be a
longshot. However, the sidebar view of Poster was an incredibly useful
feature, particularly for demos. It allowed me to easily show how RESTful
requests dynamically update a web page, or display a web page with some
basic information about REST while I explain the requests and run them from
Poster.

Having to manage both the browser window and the Poster window is a bit
fiddly during a demo scenario.

Cheers,
Robin

Trying to setup a http get request with a header property of accept:
txt/html.  The web server (jetty) is defaulting back to html some how.

Is this a known problem with firefox 3.5 & the 2.0 version?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. fill the field in the main form, including the two fields for User Auth
2. click the go button after the method selection drop down

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect an Authorization-header to be added to the requests for the
entered username and password. But no Authorization-header is in the request.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

1.7.1, linux, firefox 3.0

I have modified the source to send arrays as parametres too ,as version 1.6
don't support them.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Actions:POST and subsequent Response
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
HTTP/1.1 500 <Error><Category></Category></Error>   Status: 500
HTTP/1.1 204 Body is empty                          Status: 204
HTTP/1.1 200 Message accepted                       Status: 200


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.7.1/XP

Please provide any additional information below.
I would like to see the response messages too

** What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a first web page that will redirect (using a 301 HTTP status
code) to a second web page
2. Have the second page display the (escaped) POST data
3. Then use Poster to POST some data to the redirection page

** What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect the data POSTed to the first page to be redirected to the
second page and then the POSTed data display in the Poster output window.

What happens is the data is POSTed to the first page, it returns a 301
error code and a Location: HTTP header pointing to the new page. The second
page is then accessed using the GET method and no HTTP message data.

** What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Poster 1.7.1/Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu/Linux

** Please provide any additional information below:
The rfc2616 documentation on how to handle 301 redirections confirms the
expected outcome above: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install FF 3 RC 1

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. enter an url
2. enter a body
3. click submit

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The delete request should have a body.
The delete request has no body.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0.0

Please provide any additional information below.
perhaps deleteUrl could be handleSend iso handleGet

It would be nice if when the HTTP request returns an image you could actually 
view the image :) I am seeing the raw datastream which is not too useful!

1. Set Content-Type to multipart/form-data;boundary=-------XXXXXXX
2. Set the request body to
        boundary=-------XXXXXXX
        boundary=-------XXXXXXX--
3. Post to your server url

Serverside, the Content-Type field has a trailing ",UTF-8".
This makes multipart boundaries detection inconsistant.

I use Poster 2.0.0 on firefox 3.0.15, over Ubuntu 9.04
My server is a java server running on tomcat, I use the org.apache libs to
parse the request with the uploaded file.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Log into a server requiring authentication in Firefox
2. Post request to servlet on server using Poster
3. Get internal server error returned because Poster is not logged on to
the server

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
In the previous version (see below) Poster seemed to share authenticated
sessions with Firefox and returned the expected results from the servlet

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Have upgraded to 2.0 on Firefox 3.5 - was working for me on the previous
version I had (sorry don't know which one) with Firefox 2.x

Please provide any additional information below.
I was finding problems with in-between version of Firefox 3.1.10 not
sharing authenticated sessions across tabs, but upgrading to 3.5 has fixed
this, but not the problem with Poster.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. make a smaller icon

It seems that it is bigger that other icons in my status bar, which makes
the height of the status bar bigger than normal.

System tested:
Microsoft Vista SP1

I have web services that do not take any parameters at all but Poster will
not let me POST to them because the validation makes me include a file or
content to send.

Please excuse my poor english...
I wish you understand my question...8-(

What steps will reproduce the problem?
browse webpage(http://www.baidu.com/) that charset encode in GB2312，poster
will display unrecognizable character.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I wish poster can recognize that page charset encode in GB2312

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
poster-2.0.0/Firefox 3.5/Windows XP

Thank you in advance

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Make a request to a service that responds with a Set-Cookie header
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I would expect Poster to set the cookie and send it with subsequent
requests. At the least, I'd expect Poster to show the Set-Cookie header in
the response so I can manually set it for future requests.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Poster 2.0.0
Firefox 3.5.7

What steps will reproduce the problem?
I have tried to use poster to test the support of Chinese characters. At
first, I started to create a "POST" request, set the value of the parameter
"a" as for example "我"，then used "parameter body" to convert the Chinese
into %u6211 (I think it is some kind of a unicode). But in this situation,
this code could not be recognized by server(my server can only recognize
"UTF-8" code). But if I changed the code in "Content to send" into chinese
characters, then this request could be recognized. 
So, the question is, if a chinese character converted into codes by POSTER,
into which kind of code? If we use chinese characters instead of these
codes, so by request these characters would be also convert into some kind
of code, do you which one?

Thank you in advance

BR,
Tao 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
poster 1.7.1 + firefox 3.0 

Please provide any additional information below.

:)

I find it cumbersome to switch the HTTP verb when testing a REST API. It
would be more convenient if each of the HTTP verbs were represented using a
different button. This would replace the verb dropdown and the GO button
next to it.

If needed, the less frequently used verbs could be bundled into an Other...
button that displays a context menu.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit the Add-ons for Firefox site at https://addons.mozilla.org/
2. Search for Poster
3. Click on "Poster" by Alex Milowski

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect to see an "Install now" button. Instead, I see "This add-on is for
older versions of Firefox".
That's because I see version 1.7.1, so I had to find the Google Code
developer site for 2.0.0.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP.

Please provide any additional information below.

Would be great to have a 'Show in Firefox' button near 'Close' in the
Response window.
Usecase: submit a request to server, get a 500 response with html-formatted
stacktrace details in response body.

Poster extension is not compatible with the last version of Firefox 3.5.2.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. send a HEAD request to an API (such as CouchDB Docs API) that fully
supports HEAD & GET
2. check response

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The response should have had only headers, but contains the GET payload
(the JSON document as the body of the response, in the CouchDB case).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0 on Firefox 3.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.6

Please provide any additional information below.

I'd be happy to help with the changes. It seems like a simple tweak from
handleGet('HEAD') to handleSend('HEAD') in poster.js, but I could be wrong.

Thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. add parameter's name and values
2. try doing a POST

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the parameters to be sent. They are not.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Poster 2.0.0, Ubuntu 9.10, Firefox 3.5.7

Please provide any additional information below.
Thats all folks!

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Type a URL into the "URL:" field

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

You would expect the plugin to search for a matching URL from your visited
URLs like firefox does when you enter a url into the normal address bar.
Alternatively the plugin could maintain its own storage of only the URLs
that you've entered when using Poster.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Poster 1.7.1, Ubuntu 9.04

Please consider adding the poster menu item under Tools menu. Or consider
providing a toolbar button. Also please consider adding the option of not
having the icon in my status bar (as an example, see foxclocks addon)

I would want to have the choice of deciding where the icon is.

I think the buttons in the Action section would be much more intuitive if
the text was changed to "Submit" and "Edit", respectively. Both buttons are
currently titled "GO" which isn't very clear, and is particularly confusing
because the two buttons do very different things. 

(The Headers/Parameters/etc. select and button probably shouldn't be inside
the "Actions" section. Wouldn't it make more sense to put this in either
the "Request" or "Content to Send" sections?)

What version of the product are you using? 

Version 1.7.1

P.S. Thanks for the very useful tool!

What is the expected output?
Response w/ headers is loaded in browser as a normal request [optional method].

What do you see instead?
Response is loaded in Poster popup window which parses response and
headers. [default method].

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Poster 1.7.1 Ubuntu 9.04

Please provide any additional information below.
This is a request for enhancement.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691

seems to have old instructions warning you against 1.7...

Problem:
1. Call a webservice which will result in a 301 permanent redirect.
2. Have a look at the response window.

The status now says '200 OK' when in fact I was getting a 301 permanent 
redirect with a new location.

I would wish for a way to see the redirect header and the new location, 
before deciding to follow it.

(Poster 2.0.0 on Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP)

Is there anyway of supporting custom HTTP methods other than GET, POST etc?

Should be able to store and load calls    (args , url and everything).
Seems this Settings: Save Import Store might be for that but those actually
do nothing.

Install FF3.5, the plugin is disabled.

It would be an interesting feature to be able to generate and send a
multipart/form-data content, (but this may need lots of UI development)

At least, it would be great to be able to insert CR-LF (\r\n) into the
request body to meet multipart/form-data specifications.

Thanks

Window should have minimize button.

Simply add minimizable to features variable for openDialog function in
overlay.js

window.openDialog(
      'chrome://poster/content/poster-window.xul','poster-'+(new
Date()).getTime(),'centerscreen,chrome,resizable,minimizable',null
   );

Actually, features should not be passed at all. That way new dialog would
be resizable and minimizable by default.

steps to reproduce 
Pressing GO button with any context info leads to JavaScript Error popup
with text:
Cannot process request due to: Component returned failure code: 0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]

versions etc:
Poster 1.7.1, Firefox 3.0.1, Win XP SP2

other FF installed plugins:
Tab Catalog 1.4.xxxx
Web Developer 1.1.6
Live Http Headers 0.14
iMacros for Firefox 6.0.6.9
Firebug 1.2.0b7
Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.95
All-in-One Gestures 0.19.1

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. bring up poster dialog via menu or status icon

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
readable text about the size of other menu, dialog items in firefox

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0 Poster on 3.5.1 FF on Windows XP 32 bit with SP2 installed

Please provide any additional information below.
will attach screen print

it would really help to get some user documentation. Currently e.g. i am 
struggling to find out how some text is encoded if posted to the URL.
Wireshark or code inspection should not be needed to sue the tool 
efficiently.

From a user:

That cracked it!  The difference/problem was that on the Mac, we had
specified the protocol 'http://' in the URL.  On the PC's we simply
started with 'www.domain.com/etc...'.  Clearly the protocol is a mandatory
part of the URL.  Since Firefox assumes http:// for url's that you browse
to, it might be worth considering adding the same behavior to Poster in
the next version.

The extension should detect non-absolute URLs and attempt to fix them
by prefixing http:// on them

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. type in a URL
2. select PUT
3. send the request
4. note that output window shows that POST was used instead of PUT

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
expected PUT method to be used instead of POST


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.7, mac osx

Please provide any additional information below.
this bug is not present in v1.6.1

Thanks for the poster tool.  It is totally awesome.

How should I pass authorization header in POST request ?

Should I base64 encode Authorization header or POSTER does it before
creating HTTP envelope ?

I tried header as follows :

name : Authorization: and

Value: <base64 encoded value >

Is this correct way to send ? Any example would be helpful
Thanks

POSTER should be able to submit/send client certificates if any certificate
is installed in Firefox for the site, to which we sending a request using
POSTER. 

how does one use the parameters pop-up?

I've tried adding my POST params there, but I can't figure out how to get
them included in the POST sent.

Thus, not sure what that pop-up window is doing.

Typo in Method Select (PROFIND instead of PROPFIND)

I apologize in advance if this is a problem due to my understanding of
Poster. I could not find any instructions on this issue at any websites or
any forums for discussing Poster.

Whenever the header "Referer" is used, no matter what value it is set to,
no referer value is sent to the server. All other header values appear to
work correctly though, such as "user-agent"

This is with Poster 1.4.0, the latest version from the addons.mozilla.org page.

It would be awesome if the server response could be rendered according to
the content type header, using firefox built-in engine for xml (for
example). Raw data could be so difficult to read.
They have something like this in firebug when monitoring XHR. 

I love this extension to bits but lost it when updated to FF 3.6.
Could you post on Mozilla addons a quick update that supports FF 3.6?

Thanks!!

Cheers,
Gus

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. POST to a server that has self-signed certificates

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
POST should go through and response should be displayed
Instead, I see an error that states that certificate is self signed. No
response is displayed.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0

Please provide any additional information below.
A lot of times, developers start off using self-signed certificates. It is
rather helpful if Poster can work with self signed certs.
A previous version used to work, if I recall right because I have used it
in the past.

Problem:
If a webservice responds with an image, the output gets garbled in the 
response window (See screenshot).

Feature request
Provide a way to save the response to a file. Or provide the option to send 
the response content back to Firefox where it can be displayed as intended.

Missing method: TRACE

I'm using Poster for testing my own REST-API, and since TRACE is a valid
HTTP method, I think it should be available in poster.