Distribution Package

The easiest way to install HAR Viewer is downloading the latest distribution from Downloads section, unzip and copy on your PHP enabled web server.

Resources

HAR Viewer is a web application that allows to visualize HTTP tracing logs based on HTTP Archive format (HAR). These files contain recorded information about HTTP traffic performed by web pages. A HAR log can be created by HTTP tracking tools such as Firebug.

• See HAR spec to understand structure of HAR file.
• See List of tools supporting HAR.
• Check out HAR Viewer online.
• Use Firebug/NetExport to monitor HTTP traffic and save collected info into a HAR file.
• Use HAR newsgroup to discuss HAR spec.

Build

Following steps describe how to build your own distribution of HAR Viewer.

• Checkout HAR Viewer source code from GIT

  git clone git@github.com:janodvarko/harviewer.git

• Build distribution by running ant in the root directory

  ant

• New Release directory is created. Copy content of this directory on to your PHP enabled web server.

Customize Build

As explained in the section above, the build process is based on ant. This process utilizes a ant.properties file that can be used to customize:

• VERSION Version number of the viewer.
• GOOGLE-ANALYTICS-PROFILE ID of google analytics profile. If set, google analytics will apply automatically using provided ID (not set by default). This property is available since HAR Viewer 1.1-9

PHP

The viewer provides two default PHP files that can be used to preview a HAR file. See API for more nformation how to further customize these files.

• index.php The main HAR Viewer page that shows detailed information summary about loaded HAR file(s).

• pagelist.php Simplified preview of a single HAR file. Can be used as embedded iframe withing another page (e.g. blog post). This page expects one parameter path that specifies location of the input HAR file.

Online examples:

HAR Viewer: http://www.softwareishard.com/har/viewer/index.php

Load specified HAR by default: http://www.softwareishard.com/har/viewer/index.php?path=examples/google.com.har

Simple Preview: http://www.softwareishard.com/har/viewer/pagelist.php?path=examples/google.com.har

Known Issues

• On CentOS you need to install the Apache Ant version 1.6.5 and then the optional Ant trax package to successfully build harviewer.

$ yum install ant.x86_64 $ yum install ant-trax.x86_64