How to debug an https:// site in Eclipse with Zend debugger and PDT

Question

I have been successfully debugging several projects using Eclipse 3.4.1 with Zend Debugger and PDT. I now have a site running locally using https://. Have not been able to set a Debug Configuration in Eclipse that gets there. any ideas? Many thanks, Mary Edith

Answer 1

If you want to see what is send/received by your application, but HTTPS hides it, then you can use normal HTTP query with stunel which "adds" SSL to socket transmission. I use it to monitor my axis2 application: How to see what Axis2 sends and receives?

EDIT:

There is example in stunnel doc where client cannot use SSL: http://www.stunnel.org/examples/https_client.html

In your case you can configure stunnel like:

[https]
; https://www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443/myapp/AppService
accept  = 88
connect = www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443

Then in Eclipse dialog with URL use:

localhost:88

Communication between Eclipse and stunnel will be in plain text, but between stunnel and www.mylocalsecuresite.com:443 will be encrypted.