Firebug and post request - post

I have to make some automatic work with site. There is a form and I have to get post-request it makes. The problem is that firebug cleans information about request due to redirect to another page, so I haven't time to save post data information. Are there any ways to "freeze" it?

You can press the persist button.

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Prevent browser from caching link destination

I have an ASP.MVC application. There are some sites in the application which are accesible only with certain user permissions. If user doesn't have required permissions I am redirecting to another controller and displaying page with Not authorized message.
When user without permission tries to visit restricted page using a link, browser caches destination. So always after clicking this link user will be redirected to Not Authorized page, even if permissions are granted. Browser skips directly to cached destination.
I have disabled caching on server side but, this doesn't seem to work in this case, any ideas how I can prevent browser from remembering links destination?
Thanks in advance,
Konrad
There's no logical reason for such a behavior to occur. First, check to make sure that the user is authorized like you think they are and that your redirect code is functioning properly (such that it only redirects if indeed the user is unauthorized). Short of that, make sure you're using a temporary redirect, and not redirect permanent. Although the browser shouldn't decide to just cache the resulting page indefinitely either way, it would perhaps have more cause to think it could if you're sending a permanent redirect.
Without seeing your code I'm not entirely sure there isn't something else going on, but here's a thought:
You can programmatically construct a hyperlink in your razor page to build a unique URL each time the page is refreshed. Just tack on a ?token=#uniqueVar onto the end of the url. The token need not be used in any place in your code, but if your uniqueVar is a timestamp or a Guid or something, your URL will be different every time.

How to change GET to POST

I have one web application running on Struts. User is hitting below url directly from browser -
http://:/Test/servlet.do?name=XX&address=YYY
By default this request is submitted as GET by the user. Now my question is
1) how do I change user request to POST?
Use JQuery post or ajax methods, using an empty form with hidden keys.
There are plenty of browser add-ons that will let you send your request as POST (such as DHC by Restlet and Advanced REST client for Chrome)
Remember GET is inside the ans is set into links. POST are usually done by , or GET is possible too. So hitting a URL or link as you said is not possible to do over html, use PHP or Jquery so have it GET instead .

Grails Spring Security Last Request URL when AJAX

I'm recently facing the problem with last request url after login. Normally, everything works properly. But if I proceed following procedure I have troubles:
Open an App in one tab and log in
In this tab I go somewhere where AJAX request to the server are proceeded regularly
Open a new tab with the app (I'm still logged-in)
In this tab I log out
In the mean time the AJAX request from the 1st tab is proceeded automatically
with HTTP 401 (cause I've logged-out)
When I try to log in again in the 2nd tab than I receive the JSON of the AJAX request from the 1st tab because it was the last request.
I would suspect that Spring Security would neglect AJAX request for "last request url". Is it possible to set this somewhere? Or is there any good workaround to this?
Thanks,
Mateo
I don't think there is a general way to distinguish ajax requests from "regular" requests initiated by the user navigating a browser. If you can distinguish them in your application (e.g. by mapping ajax requests to specific urls that can be matched against some patterns), you could easily implement what you are looking for. (EDIT: An easier way to identify ajax requests is suggested by Sérgio in his below comment.)
The component that is responsible to perform redirection after a successful login is SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler, therefore one possibile way to customize the framework's default behavior is to provide your own AuthenticationSuccessHandler, and inject it into the UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter. It should be possible to autowire the RequestCache in your class, and decide if you want to replay the last cached request or just ignore it in case it's known to be an ajax request.

Session Struts2 SSL

I have created a Login Application with struts 2 and integrated with SSL. When I click on the back button after logging out, I am still able to see the page though it shows session expired when I try to perform any action on the page. But, when I refresh the page, I am able to perform all the actions on the page. I have removed the cookies using an Interceptor on the event of LogOut. Can anyone help me out.
This is not much information that you give us here.
I think the problem might stem from the URL of the page that you are refreshing. Please take a look at that and what action that URLs gets called, and all the GET and POST data that is appended when reloading the page. You might want to use a debugger for this. Maybe this information regenerates the cookie or the logged-in information in the session.
You can use the SessionAware interceptor to store data based on the uses's session. If you don't find the error, you can put a boolean loggedIn flag into the session, check at the beginning of your actions if the user is really logged in, and set the value to false when the user logs out.

In an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, how can I save the post data in the where their session times out

I have an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. The site involves people writing lengthy responses using a textarea in a web form. Occasionally, users are complaining that they are getting redirected to the log in form after they post their data. I am not sure exactly why they are getting logged out because the users do not typically provide enough information on their errors. I believe it is due either to a session time out or the application has been restarted for some reason. This is on a shared web hosting site and it does not have its own app pool.
In any case, regardless of the reason, I would like to capture that post data and save it to a db or text file. How can I get the post data and save it while the controller redirects the user to the login screen.
I know the long term plan would be to identify why the timeout is occurring. But for now I want to be able to grab the post data and recover it at a later time.
First, in order to avoid timeouts, I would recommend using client-side heartbeat solution (like http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Heartbeat)
Second, assuming that you are using forms authentication, in order to save posted data, when Forms Authorization Module is redirecting your users, you will need to intercept redirects in EndRequest HttpApplication event handler in Global.asax or your own module.
The way to intercept those requests is not that straightforward, since on "EndRequest" pipeline step you will see 302 HTTP status code (redirect instruction), not 401 (Unauthorized error). So you may check if request is not authenticated (HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) and request is redirected - in this case you may save what you see in the request.
Otherwise you would need to disable forms authentication and use some solution, which is closer to ASP.NET MVC.
one solution can be to put a javasscript timer which keeps on hitting the server after specified interval to keep session alive until u figure out the cause of session time out (only i its the session timeout problem)
If you want to stop the session from timing out, you can add a hidden iframe on the page. For example, create a new page called KeepSessionAlive and do this:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">
where content = seconds.
I don't know about MVC 3, but the way you can get and store the post values is to catch them before redirecting the user to the Login page.

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