HttpWatch Professional Edition

8.1.12

Integrated HTTP sniffer for IE and Firefox.

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8.1.12
Publisher:

Simtec
Date added:

Mar 15, 2012
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Windows
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18.8 MB
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httpwatchpro.exe
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Shareware ($395)
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Software Description

HttpWatch Professional Edition shows you HTTP and HTTPS traffic from within IE allowing you to quickly debug, fix, and optimize your Website. See headers, cookies, status codes, compression, content and more as you browse a Web site. The Basic Edition only displays extended information for a limited number of Web sites.

Key features:

- Records HTTP

- Decrypts HTTPS Traffic

- Integrates with Internet Explorer & Firefox

- Compact & Comprehensive Log Files

- Standalone Log File Viewer

- Summary of Recorded Traffic

- Grouping of Requests by Page

- Collect Log Files From Your Customers

- Request Level Time Charts

- Real-Time Page Level Time Charts

- Page Events

- Detects Potential Problems

- Customizable Data Columns

- Data Tips

- Automation Support

- Advanced Filtering

- Millisecond Level Timing

- Dynamic Sorting

- HTTP Compression

- Network Level Performance Data

- Extended Cookie Information

- Shows Interaction with Browser Cache

- Raw HTTP Streams

- Export Data to CSV, HAR and XML

- Import HAR files

- Customizable CSV Export

- Keyboard Accelerators

- Access to Cached and Downloaded Content

- Accurately Records Requests and Responses

- Automatic Recording and Saving

- Support for International Characters

- Printing Support

- Easy, Simple and Powerful

The log file format used by HttpWatch results in much smaller files that other formats such as XML and contains everything that is displayed in HttpWatch. This includes binary format files and streams, compressed content and network information. If your customers send you HttpWatch log files you will get a full and accurate representation of the HTTP activity in their browser.

The Summary view can be used at any time to quickly display data about the whole log, a single page or a number of selected items. The following types of data are shown:

- Performance - this tab shows how long the requests took to complete and can be used to accurately measure page download time. It also shows how much network bandwidth was used and the savings achieved from using HTTP compression

- Page Events - this tab shows the events recorded during the loading of a single page

- Timings - this tab shows the minimum, maximum, average and total for each type of timing

- Status Codes - this tab records how many times each HTTP status code was received

- Errors - any network or HTTP level errors are displayed on this tab. Double clicking on an error finds the first request that caused the error. Pressing F3 then takes you to the next request that also failed in the same way.

- Warnings - any warnings that were detected by HttpWatch are summarized on this tab. Double clicking on a warning finds the first request that on which the warning was detected. Pressing F3 then takes you to the next request that also has the same warning.

The Basic Edition of HttpWatch saves exactly the same data as the Professional Edition in its .hwl files, If you open one of these files in the Professional Edition, you can view all the extended HTTP information (e.g. headers, cookies, timings, etc) without any restrictions.

HttpWatch has a comprehensive automation interface that can be used by most programming languages (e.g. C#, Javascript & Ruby). The interface can be used to control the HttpWatch plug-in for IE or Firefox and to access data in HttpWatch log files. If you are already running automated tests, you can integrate HttpWatch and record HTTP level information during your tests. The recorded data that then be checked for certain types of configuration and performance problems (e.g. HTTP compression is not enabled).

The ability to access data in an HttpWatch log file makes it possible to develop custom reports and automate repetitive tasks. The C# code, shown below, exports all javascript files from a log file.Whenever a cookie is sent to a web server only its name and value appear in the HTTP request message. HttpWatch also displays the associated domain, path and expiration data making it easier to determine why a particular cookie value is being used. In version 7 it also shows the HttpOnly and Secure flags along with the source of the cookie value.

Other HTTP monitoring tools only display this information for cookies in the HTTP response message.

The Overview and Stream tabs show DNS lookups, TCP connects, IP addresses and ports used by an HTTP request. This can help locate network related problems and check that Keep-Alive connections are being used effectively.

The Send and Receive columns show the actual number of bytes that the browser had to send and receive when executing an HTTP request. Other tools just show you the content size, but it is the network level data sizes that really have an impact on performance.

HttpWatch shows the interaction between browser and its cache, not just network traffic between the browser and the web site. This is an important feature when a web site is being tuned for performance or to determine why pages are not updating correctly.

The setup program is simple to run manually, and supports automated deployment by scripts or tools such as SMS.

HttpWatch was the first integrated HTTP sniffer for Internet Explorer and leads the way with a simple, yet powerful, user interface.

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HttpWatch Professional Edition is periodically updated by our editors team but sometimes you may find out that software informations are outdated, please note that the publisher of HttpWatch Professional Edition can update the software without notifying us. Current version of HttpWatch Professional Edition is 8.1.12.

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