# Help re recording/replaying (i.e. automating) HTTP interactions to a web-site?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-re-recording-replaying-i-e-automating-http-interactions-to-a-web-site/134336>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-re-recording-replaying-i-e-automating-http-interactions-to-a-web-site/134336 "2008-04-09T22:43:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-re-recording-replaying-i-e-automating-http-interactions-to-a-web-site/134336/1 "2008-04-09T22:43:03Z")

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Hi,

Actually can anyone recommend a good technique / software / plugin that  
would assist if I wanted to effectively (a) record my interaction with  
my  
bank at the HTTP level, then (b) use this to automate that behavior in  
my  
RoR application to automate pulling down daily account details?

The best I can think of at the moment is: (a) Firefox Live HTTP Headers  
plugin then (b) manually write Ruby code that sends these out and waits  
for  
the response & check it before proceeding to the next http request. I’m  
thinking someone probably has a better way, or plugin, to handle at  
least  
part (b)?

Tks

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Greg H. \<

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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-re-recording-replaying-i-e-automating-http-interactions-to-a-web-site/134336/2 "2008-04-26T10:43:59Z")

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(bump) would still love to get some advise on this…