title: Developer Tools: Follow network requests across popups
body: <p>We are trying to figure out how something works on the web (for web scraping/automation) and one of the web pages we are working on issues a popup to do some of the work. One of our most commonly used debug tools is the Chrome network tab in Developer Tools, hit "record" do some work, and then examine what was done and then replicate the work done "offline".</p>
  
  <p>However the Developer Tools (in Chrome, Safari and Firefox - all work the same) do not follow requests across a popup, even if you hit "record".</p>
  
  <p>Is there some configuration value I'm missing, or some way to record all network events? We can't use tcpdump/wireshark for this because it's all done over SSL. One option we've considered is a man-in-the-middle https proxy, but I can't find anything pre-written so we'd have to create one ourselves.</p>