Also if you really need to

pr0gr4mm3r — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:45:54 +0000

Also if you really need to see every packet that goes between you and a website, Wireshark is another cool program.

Another good tool is Fiddler

Greg K — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:11:24 +0000

Another good tool is Fiddler which on a windows machine will when turned on will show you all web calls, and even has a plugin for firefox.

-Greg

My recommendation is to

pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:37:04 +0000

My recommendation is to install Firebug for Firefox which will give you a really good idea of what's going on in the backend when you navigate to a site and submit data.

With Firebug enabled, go to the desired website, and hit F12 to bring up the Firebug panel, go to the Net tab and activate it. Then, when you navigate through forms, Firebug shows you exactly what is posted as you go along, and will make it pretty easy to replicate it with Curl once you know what data you need to send.