I'm currently using HTTP Analyzer V5 trial version which expires very soon.
Are there any [good] free tools for sniffing and inspecting the contents of HTTP packets, in a similar way to the above mentioned tool?
Fiddler2 has saved me sooo much time in the past, Web Services Studio too for analysing what soap messages are going back and forth to a web service.
Mauro
2009-07-06 08:10:19
Does it only sniff on IE?
Cecil Has a Name
2009-07-06 11:46:13
(I meant Fiddler)
Cecil Has a Name
2009-07-06 11:47:05
Fiddler can act as a local proxy for other browsers too. By default, it hooks up to IE automatically, thats true, but you can setup other browsers manually.
Maciej Łebkowski
2009-07-06 14:29:07
Oooh, teh shiny!
Cecil Has a Name
2009-07-06 17:29:50
+1
A:
To look inside TCP/IP packets and view the full bits and bytes, I recommend Wireshark. To look inside the HTTP protocol transmissions, Fiddler2 suffices.
Zian Choy
2009-07-06 08:13:28
+4
A:
Whilst using wireshark for in-depth examination, for more lightweight analysis I also use the httpfox addin for Firefox and, more occasionally, the Live HTTP Headers addon for Firefox. httpfox aims to include the functionality found in httpwatch.
mas
2009-07-06 08:20:27