New in Symfony 2.4: Quicker Access to the Profiler when working on an API

November 4, 2013 • Published by Fabien Potencier

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Contributed by Adrien Brault in #9342

In the development environment, the profiler, the web profiler, and the web debug toolbar are enabled by default. But when working on an API, you spend more time in the console introspecting the HTTP responses as plain text than in a browser. In that case, getting the profile URL associated with the current request/response message is a bit cumbersome; the X-Debug-Token header gives you the profiler unique identifier, but it's then up to you to open a browser and remember the hostname and the path to the Symfony profiler.

As of Symfony 2.4, the profile full URL is available in the X-Debug-Token-Link header. No big deal, but it makes things as easy as they should be.

Published in #Living on the edge

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