A recording method defines the type of performance recording that you want to
perform. The choices are:
1. API recording (the default)
2. Network recording
3. Proxy recording
In general, we recommend that you select API recording.
API Recording
With API recording, Robot records API calls between the specific client application
and the server. Recording occurs on the client rather than on the wire, as with
network and proxy recording. Therefore, choose API recording if you are accessing
secure data from a Web server, because API recording captures the information
before it reaches the wire and is encrypted.
API recording is supported only on Windows NT and Windows 2000 clients. With
API recording, you do not have to specify the network names or IP addresses of the
client and server as you do with network and proxy recording.