Importing a HAR file

A HAR (HTTP Archive) is what your browser’s Network tab produces with “Save all as HAR”. It is the most direct way of turning “what the site does” into a Restorm project.

Importing

In the browser: developer tools ▸ Network tab ▸ right-click ▸ Save all as HAR. Then, in Restorm: File ▸ Import (Ctrl+I).

What is imported

HAR element	What Restorm makes of it
log.pages	One folder per page (flattened if there is only one page)
log.entries	One HTTP request per recorded call
Method, URL, query parameters	Filled in
Headers	Carried over, except HTTP/2 pseudo-headers and a content-length that has become wrong
Cookies	Merged into a single Cookie header
Bodies	JSON, plain text, x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data

The distinctive part: the responses too

HAR is the only import format that also feeds the history: the responses actually recorded during the capture are written into each created request’s response history.

You therefore have, right from the import, the reference response for every call — before you have sent anything at all.

Limitations

A HAR holds everything, repeated calls included: duplicates are not merged, so it is up to you to tidy up. The HAR import cannot be re-synced — a new import creates a new tree.

Mind the content, too: a HAR captures real authentication headers and cookies. Check what you commit.