1190213 - Group requests per page when 'persistent logs' is enabled

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Netmonitor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

When the option 'Enable persistent logs' is checked, the Network panel should group all requests per page similar to how Firebug does it to make it possible to differentiate them.

Firebug's implementation does not display a header for the last requested page, which makes it hard to identify where they belong to.
Therefore all requested pages should have a header at the top. A few related mockups (they are for Firebug, but can be easily applied to the Network monitor) can be found here:

https://github.com/firebug/firebug/issues/2757#issuecomment-103403043

Sebastian

Comment 1

[turkeburgr]

Additional feature requirements.  Right now all the requests are exported to a HAR file with a single page in the pages array.  The expected behavior would be each new page would also translate into the pages array as well with the requests linked through the pageref in the individual entries.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

(In reply to turkeburgr from comment #1)
> Additional feature requirements.  Right now all the requests are exported to
> a HAR file with a single page in the pages array.  The expected behavior
> would be each new page would also translate into the pages array as well
> with the requests linked through the pageref in the individual entries.

Good point! I've split this into its own bug, so both issues can be implemented and tracked individually.

Sebastian

Comment 3

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Note that the title of the groups should be the page title, maybe with a timestamp, so page reloads can be distinguished. Additionally, the URL of the page might be added as title attribute, so it shown on hover.

If possible, the grouping should also happen retrospectively, i.e. when you loaded a page without the option to persist the logs being enabled, then enable it and reload the page or load a different one, the existing requests should also be grouped.

Sebastian

Comment 4

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Thanks for the report Sebastian!

Honza

Comment 6

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Bug 1252010 additionally mentions that each group might have its own headers and resources summary.

Sebastian