Seamless HTTP monitoring for IE and Firefox by HttpWatch

What is HttpWatch?

HttpWatch is a widely used web development tool that shows you HTTP and HTTPS traffic from within   IE; allowing you to quickly debug, fix and optimize your website. It displays headers, cookies, status   codes, compression, content and more as you browse a web site. You can use it to:

• Investigate caching and compression
• Quickly locate problems with redirection, cookies or POST data
• Collect log files from your customers or send them to your suppliers
• Export data to XML or CSV

How can HttpWatch Help?

HttpWatch integrates with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers to show you exactly what HTTP traffic is triggered when you access a web page. If you access a site that uses secure HTTPS connections, HttpWatch automatically displays the decrypted form of the network traffic.

Conventional network monitoring tools just display low level data captured from the network. In contrast, HttpWatch has been optimized for displaying HTTP traffic and allows you to quickly see the values of headers, cookies, query strings and more.




HttpWatch also supports non-interactive examination of HTTP data. When log files are saved, a complete record of the HTTP traffic is saved in a compact file. You can even examine log files that your customers and suppliers have recorded using the free Basic Edition.



Why HttpWatch?

Seven reasons to use HttpWatch rather than other HTTP monitoring tools:

• Easy to Use - start logging after just a couple of mouse clicks in Internet Explorer or Firefox. No 
• other proxies, debuggers or network sniffers have to be configured
• Productive - quickly see cookies, headers, POST data and query strings without having to manually
• decode raw HTTP packets
• Robust - reliably log thousands of HTTP transactions for hours or days while tracking down 
• intermittent problems
• Accurate - HttpWatch has minimal impact on the normal interaction of the browser with a web site. 
• No extra network hops are added, allowing you to measure real world HTTP performance
• Flexible - HttpWatch only requires client-side installation and will work with any server side 
• technology that renders HTML pages in Internet Explorer or Firefox. No special server-side 
• permissions or configurations are required - ideal for use against production servers on the Internet 
• or Intranet
• Comprehensive - works with HTTP compression, redirection, SSL encryption & NTLM 
• authentication. A complete automation interface provides access to recorded data and allows 
• HttpWatch to be controlled from most popular programming languages.
• Professional Support - updates and bug fixes are provided free of charge on our website and 
• technical support is available by email, phone or fax.
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