Manual:Huggle/Debugging

Debugging huggle
When things go wrong and huggle doesn't behave as it should, there is a fairly large toolkit that can be used to debug what is wrong.

Verbosity of program
Huggle can be started in so called "debug mode" in this mode, interface contains few buttons and menus that are normally hidden and display much more technical information that normally aren't visible.

You can start huggle in verbose mode by passing it -v parameter where amount of v's is level of verbosity (for example -vv is verbosity level 2).

You can also switch running huggle into debug mode (it can't be switched back though) by opening help -> about and moving the mouse cursor over name of Petrb and Addshore. Doing so (approx. 10 times) will pop up a message box.

System log
Huggle produces a system log, this log contains more information when in debug mode.

It can be dumped out to a file using parameter --syslog.

If you are reporting a bug or problem with huggle, this system log can be useful for developers in order to figure out what is wrong.

Traffic dump
One of most effective ways to diagnose the issues.

Enabling traffic dump using parameter --qd will generate output file that contains raw traffic sent by huggle and received from web servers.

This file can be very huge even in very short time.

It may contain sensitive information and it's recommended to examine it before sending to anyone untrusted.