Logging all Firefox HTTP Request Headers?

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Published on 2010-02-05T20:34:14Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 22:08 UTC
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I'm using Ruby+Watir to request pages through Firefox.

I would like to record the headers and content of every http request made through the browser.

Would it be possible to configure a proxy solution to store this information, either in a file or pipe it into an application?

I'm running Ubuntu x64.

// Edit:

I would like to store the data in logs because I would like to view it later. Preferably, I am looking for a solution that runs quietly in the background and stores the headers/content in files.

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