Has anyone played with an HTTP or Proxy server implementation in
merlin.  I'm brand new to the tool and would appreciate any comments you
feel to make - flames of otherwise.

The whole reason I got started with Avalon is that, recently at a paying
client, I had a problem with a J2EE application being developed.  I
needed to use the 'available tools' at the client to trace the
behavior.  Since I couldn't use tcpdump (only one person in the entire
corporation is authorized to use it) and since I was dealing with
non-SSL connections I decided to set up a proxy server to log the
results.

Unfortunately the only available beast (again the client has draconian
rules about getting software authorized) was JMeter's HttpProxyServer
doodad.  I had to hack it to log both the full request and full
response, but I was able to get what I needed.  It was, however, quite a
pain in the butt.

I started looking for a Java based Http Proxy and found little of any
use.  I explored the Tammi and Avalon frameworks and decided that I
liked Avalon better.  Though Tammi seemed a more direct route, the
architecture of Avalon seemed a better thing to deal with if this was
going to be anything more than a hack.



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