What HTTP traffic monitor would you recommend for Windows?

windows http traffic sniffer
Pavel picture Pavel · Aug 13, 2009 · Viewed 148.7k times · Source

I need the sniffer to test network traffic of applications developed by me for Windows and Facebook.

Basic requirements:

  • display request and response
  • display HTTP headers
  • display the time it took to complete HTTP request

Now I'm using HTTP Analyzer. A very good tool, but it terminates with some error after 10-15 min running on Vista.

Answer

ICodeForCoffee picture ICodeForCoffee · Aug 13, 2009

Wireshark if you want to see everything going on in the network.

Fiddler if you want to just monitor HTTP/s traffic.

Live HTTP Headers if you're in Firefox and want a quick plugin just to see the headers.

Also FireBug can get you that information too and provides a nice interface when your working on a single page during development. I've used it to monitor AJAX transactions.

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