Comment 2 for bug 520219

On 11 February 2010 14:09, James Westby <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:12:28 -0000, Martin Pool <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> api calls to Launchpad can be a bit slow.  It would be nice if there was
>> a way to see a trace of what's happening, so that we can either give the
>> user some idea of progress, or so that the application author can get an
>> idea of inefficient things they may be doing.  Because it runs only over
>> https you can't watch the requests at the network level.
>>
>> Something like LAUNCHPADLIB_TRACE=1 would be nice, and would let it be
>> turned on without app-specific patches.
>
> Do you know about "import httplib2; httplib2.debuglevel = 1"?
>
> It's not suitable for displaying to users, and it doesn't satisy your
> last constraint, but I use it for looking at the requests when
> developing.
>
> It may be useful to you until this bug is fixed.

I didn't; thanks.
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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>