HttpFox: The FireFox add-on you can't live without

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2008/09/26/httpfox-the-firefox-add-on-you-cant-live-without.aspx

by lmacvittie • 18 years ago

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briansmith• 18 years ago

How does this compare to Firebug's similar feature?

gleb• 18 years ago

Unlike Firebug and TamperData HttpFox does not change behavior of the browser cache, and correctly reports what is being served from cache and what goes on the wire. Unlike TD and LiveHTTPHeaders it has a convenient user interface for examining HTTP conversation post-factum, including timing, cache info, etc. The interface part follows from it being a direct, if not yet complete clone of HttpWatch, an excellent commercial product for IE. Unlike tcpdump/tcpflow/wireshark it allows convenient capture of SSL traffic, and is quick to use.

In summary, HttpFox is the a great tool for HTTP optimization under Firefox.

there• 18 years ago

the Tamper Data add-on is quite similar but also allows you to interrupt/drop requests and change header values and POST parameters on the fly.

gojomo2• 18 years ago

Any chance Tamper Data catches an outbound request early enough you can actually rewrite the target URL, including target host?

Because I've wanted to make an extension that does that for a while, but haven't found in Mozilla docs the right hooks, and would love a working model.

eduardoflores• 18 years ago

You can change any header or content to be sent, including the host header. Is this what you need?

chwolfe• 18 years ago

If you work in an IE world, Fiddler is a nice tool.

fozy• 18 years ago

Now why would someone want to do that :P

Conceptual• 18 years ago

Another alternative to look at is Live HTTP Headers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3829

also• 18 years ago

When I just want to see the requests sent to a website, this works fine for me:

tcpdump host thedomain -A -s10000 | grep -Eo "(GET|POST).*$"

More info here:

http://en.gibney.org/capture_webtraffic/

tptacek• 18 years ago

-s0 does what you're trying to do with -s10000

cubix• 18 years ago

unless you've got ninja-like skills and can write an appropriate filter to see just the data you're interested in, the signal-to-noise ratio in Wireshark can be overwhelming.

Nina-like skills? I would consider that just basic competence with the tool.

known• 18 years ago

http://www.site-perf.com

HttpFox: The FireFox add-on you can't live without

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