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How to Choose API Recording
Setting Recording Options
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API Recording
With API recording, Robot records API calls between the specific client application
and the server. Recording occurs on the client rather than on the wire, as with
network and proxy recording. Therefore, choose API recording if you are accessing
secure data from a Web server, because API recording captures the information
before it reaches the wire and is encrypted.
API recording is supported only on Windows NT and Windows 2000 clients. With
API recording, you do not have to specify the network names or IP addresses of the
client and server as you do with network and proxy recording.
How to Choose API Recording
To use the API recording method:
1. Click
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tools
>
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
.
2. Click the
Method
Method
Method
Method
tab, and click
API recording
API recording
API recording
API recording
.
Network Recording
With network recording, Robot records packet-level traffic at the OSI network
interface layer using the "promiscuous" mode of your network card. Network
recording is media-independent, supporting standards such as Ethernet, Token
Ring, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI).
Network recording occurs on the wire rather than on the client (as with API
recording).
How to Choose Network Recording
To use the network recording method:
1. Click
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tools
>
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
Session Record Options
.
2. Click the
Method
Method
Method
Method
tab, and click
Network recording
Network recording
Network recording
Network recording
.
3. Option
ally, clic
k the
Method:Network
Method:Network
Method:Network
Method:Network
tab, and select the client/server pair that
you will record. The default is to record all of the network traffic to and from
your computer. (For information, see Selecting a Client/Server Pair below.)
4. Optionally, click the
Generator Filtering
Generator Filtering
Generator Filtering
Generator Filtering
tab to specify the network protocols to
include in the script that Robot generates. (For information, see Setting Filtering
Options
on page 6-17.)