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Are there any tool for monitoring HTTP responses? so open such tool up. give it URL. And it goes to it and brings you back not only body of http response but all http response.
Fiddler2
http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler2/version.asp
Fiddler acts as an http proxy, it lets you examine outgoing requests and incoming responses (raw headers, data, everything). It also lets you change requests, resend them and manipulate them directly. It is invaluable.
(source: fiddler2.com)
Use Firebug,if you're using FireFox.
(source: getfirebug.com)
Examine HTTP Headers
(source: getfirebug.com)
XMLHttpRequest monitoring
(source: getfirebug.com)
Also checkout the light version Firebug Light which works on all the browsers out of the box. no setup required. Firebug Lite does show Http Response headers and network monitoring but it's good enough to play around with the DOM.
Try REDbot:
http://redbot.org/
If you're looking for a tool allowing to monitor HTTP requests / responses on client side, you should take a look at Fiddler2.
Live HTTP Headers
Some options:
Download "Live HTTP headers" or Firebug add-ons for Firefox
Use wget with the -s option (if you're on Unix/Linux)
Download something like Wireshark to see the whole TCP/IP traffic stream
parros proxy is great for this :
http://www.parosproxy.org/index.shtml
http://www.httpdebugger.com/download.html
Or wireshark..
Old question, but there's definitely a few tools available for this. The existing answers here give awesome recommendations if you just need to look at a request/response actively.
If you need to do automation HTTP response monitoring, you can use my tool: https://assertible.com. With this, you can set up requests and make 'assertions' on the response. If the response doesn't match what you expected, you can set up alerts to get notified.
There are, of course, many other ways to approach this. For something more manual, I would recommend Chrome Dev Tools or, for Firefox, Firebug as mentioned in another answer.
Hope it helps!
well... I suppose that defines any browser, but if you want to analyze the response in code, cURL is one of the most used tools for networking, not just HTTP but other protocols as well. It will give you the headers as well as the body and allow authentication, etc., all from a command line or embedded elsewhere, as in a PHP script.
I love Burp Suite but this is as much focused on intercepting and modifying HTTP requests as it is monitoring them.
Not the specific tools you are looking for, but I highly recommend getting familiar with tcpdump and/or wireshark packet analyzers if you are into any sort of network programming. The latter has a "Follow TCP Stream" feature to look at the bytes flowing through TCP pipe.
GNU Wget
wget --save-headers URL
I know this is an old thread, but I came across this thread and wanted to leave a link to PostMan. Great way to simulate requests and examine responses...
An open source tool Insomnia works great and is available on macOS, Linux, and Windows. It works great for API testing, but you can also use it as a simple HTTP client.
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Since we updated our clients to HTTP2, I've had problems with mapping files to local resources. We normally use Charles (App) to do this, but since we updated to HTTP2, we've had some errors.
It seems to cut the files short and only load a tiny part of the files. Charles then gives a Failure message back saying:
Client closed connection before receiving entire response
I've been looking through the big interwebs for answers, but haven't been able to find any yet.
Hopefully there's some brilliant minds in here.
We have addressed this issue in Charles 4.1.2b2. Please try it out from https://www.charlesproxy.com/download/beta/
Please let me know if this does or doesn't correct the issue for you! We plan to roll out this build to release pretty soon, especially once we've had more users confirm the solution.
One workaround I've found is using the disable-http2 flag when launching Chrome. In MacOS the terminal command would be:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --disable-http2
In windows you could alter your shortcut to launch with that --disable-http2 option.
As you said the problem is raised since client has been updated, have you double check all point relative to any client cache issue ? ( see here about no-caching tool in Charles)
You may use "Upgrade header" to force a change of http protocol version:
The Upgrade header field is a HTTP header field introduced in HTTP/1.1. In the exchange, the client begins by making a cleartext request, which is later upgraded to a newer http protocol version or switched to a different protocol. Connection upgrade must be requested by the client, if the server wants to enforce an upgrade it may send a 426 upgrade required response. The client can then send a new request with the appropriate upgrade headers while keeping the connection open.
I am looking for tools that can be used for debugging web applications.I have narrowed my search to the following tools:
HTTPwatch.
Fiddler.
ieHTTPheader
liveHTTPheader.
It would be great if some of you having experience with these tools could discuss their pros and cons (features that you like or you think are missing in some of the tools but present in others).I am majorly confused between HTTPWatch and Fiddler, I would prefer Fiddler (being free) if it could fullfill all or most of HTTPWatch's features (however I am ready to pay for HTTPWatch if it's worth it).
P.S. - I know HTTPWatch and Fiddler are far more powerful than the other two tools (let me know if you disagree).
I am sure most of you would want more details as to what I would exactly like to do with these tools however I would like if you could compare these tools taking a broader perspective in mind comparing them as tools in general.
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Here's a list of the main advantages of HttpWatch (our product) and Fiddler. Of course we're biased, but we've tried to be objective:
HttpWatch Advantages
Shows requests that were read from
the browser cache without going onto network
Shows page level events, e.g. Render Start, DOM Load, etc
Handles SSL traffic without certificate warnings or requiring changes to trusted root CAs
Reduces 'observer effect' by not requiring HTTP proxy at network level
Groups requests by page
Fiddler Advantages
Works with almost any HTTP client not just Firefox and IE
Can intercept traffic from clients on non-Windows platforms, e.g. mobile devices
Requests can be intercepted and modified on the fly, e.g. change cookie value
Supports plugins to add extra functionality
Wireshark works at the network layer and of course gives you more information that the other tools you have mentioned here, however, if you want to debug web applications by breaking on requests/responses, modifying them and replaying - Fiddler is the tool for you!
Fiddler cannot however show TCP level information however and in such cases you will need Network Monitor or Wireshark.
If you specify what exactly you want to do with the 'debugger', one can suggest what's more appropriate for the job.
Fidler is good and simple to use. Wireshark is also worth considering since it gives a lot of extra information
You could also use Wireshark which allows you to analyze many protocols including TCP/IP.
A lab exercise from a University lecture on using Wireshark to analyze HTTP can be found here: Wireshark Lab: HTTP
take a look at HTTP Debugger Pro
It works with all browsers and custom software and doesn't change proxy settings.
So when I am debugging my web applications and such, I've used the Charles web proxy and debugger and love it. It's so nice to see what's being sent and received via port 80 and 443. I can see all the resources loading, not just from the "browser" per say, but also flash applications. I can also see how the calls are being made, and it pretty easy to reconstruct them. It's a great debugging tool and I love it.
So I'm wondering two things:
First, I'm wondering is if there is something similar I can use to watch traffic that might be coming though on other ports. I guess some desktop applications will use the internet, but not necessarily via http / https requests. I remember looking at some security tools a few years ago - there are a lot of security tools out there, like kismet / etherCap, ethershark, etc - is there one that does what I'm describing in an easy and intuitive way?
Also, I'm wondering if I am using my iPhone / iPad / Android device, how can I set up a proxy through my computer so I can watch the http/https requests that the device makes?
Found the answer to that one here: http://www.ravelrumba.com/blog/ipad-http-debugging/
I'm mostly on a Mac so anything that is Mac friendly would be extra helpful.
Thanks!
I believe you are looking for Wireshark. It allows you to monitor the network interface on your machine and be able to tell you sent/receive packets as well as their protocols. It also has a protocol decoder that can be used to get Layer 7 information about a IP stream. You can also do a "Follow TCP stream" which allows you to view the entire conversation of that connection. It's based on libpcap (Packet capture) which the built in tcpdump also uses.
The only downside for you web developers is that if you're using SSL encrypted sessions, you can't decode it. The endpoints of the SSL session are "above" (using OSI model) the layer at which wireshark (and similar tools) operate.
Here's a good list http://sectools.org/sniffers.html. I used Wireshark back when it was Ethereal. At that time it ran under X11, It looks like that has changed.
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I'm trying to get down to the details of what happens once a server gets a request from a client...
Open a socket on the port specified by the request...
Then access the asset or resource?
What if the resource refers to a cgi/script?
What "layers" does the request info have to pass through?
How is the response generated?
I've looked up info on "how the internet works", and "request response cycle", but I'm looking for details as to what happens inside the server.
It seems like you're having a little trouble separating out the different parts of your question so I'll do my best to help you out with that.
First and foremost, a common method for understanding communication between two computers is described using what is called the OSI model. This model attempts to distinguish the responsibilities between each protocol in a protocol stack. For example, when you surf a website on your home network the protocol stack is most likely something like
Ethernet-IPv4-TCP-HTTP
This modularization of protocols is used to create a separation of concerns so that developers don't have to "reinvent the wheel" each time they try to get two computers to communicate in some way. If you're trying to write a chat program you don't want to worry about packet loss or internet routing methodologies so you go ahead and take advantage of the lower level protocols that already exist and handle more of the nitty gritty stuff for you.
When people refer to socket communication these days they're typically using TCP or UDP. These are both known as transport protocols. If you'd like to learn more of the fine details on socket communication I would start with UDP because it's a simpler protocol and then move on to TCP.
While your web server is aware of some information in the lower level protocols it doesn't really do much with it. Primarily that's all handled by the operating system libraries which eventually hand the web server some raw HTTP data which the web server then begins to process.
To add another layer, HTTP has nothing to do with the gateway language running behind the scenes. This is fairly obvious due to the fact that the protocol is the same whether the web server is serving CGI perl scripts, PHP, ASP.Net or static HTML files. HTTP simply makes the request and the webserver processes the request accordingly.
Hopefully this clarifies a few concepts for you and gives you a better idea what you're trying to understand.
It depends on the server. An apache 2 server could do any amount of request rewriting, automatic responses (301, 303, 307, 403, 404, 500) based on rules, starting a CGI script, exchanging data with a FastCGI script, passing some data to a script module like mod_php, and so on. The CouchDB web server would do something else entirely.
Basically, aside from parsing the request and sending back the appropriate response, there's no real common aspect to web servers.
You could try looking into the documentation of the various web servers: Apache, IIS, lighttpd, nginx...
I'm in the process of building a test plan for validating the security of our Flex/J2EE application. I believe we have some issues with trusting the Flex application too much, but I need to be able to quantify those issues.
The ideal way would be a way to show me making data service calls outside of the application. Are there tools or instructions for how one might go about doing this? I really don't want to find these things out after we release to our beta customers. :)
Charles is an excellent HTTP debugging proxy which can parse AMF data and display it as a tree. You can also set "breakpoints" to intercept a HTTP call and modify the AMF data in either the request or response.
http://www.charlesproxy.com/
Fiddler on Windows is great for monitoring http connections.
First, give the port on which Flex communicates to the J2EE server, then using Ethereal or Wireshark you can watch if it use an encrypted channel :-)