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Site Testing With HTTPWatch

Since finding HTTPWatch almost two years ago, there's rarely a day goes by that I don't use it. One area where it comes in handy is testing sites. You can setup filtering like this:

Once this filter is enabled, anything that appears in the results pane is a problem. If nothing appears all is well. It's a good way to test your sites.

What I tend to do is turn on the filtering and just leave it running while I test other aspects of the site. If anything appears in HTTPWatch I can fix it and carry on until everything is ok. Problems are usually with missing images or alternate CSS files. Things that can easily go unnoticed otherwise.

More on testing tomorrow...

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    • YoGi
    • Tue 30 Aug 2005 06:05 AM

    Quite expensive for an HTTP sniffer.. I would prefer less expensive solutions (HTTPLook or HttpDetect - $30 both) or free / open source ones (live http headers, iehttpheaders..)

  1. Hi

    I like "Web developer" ({Link} a Addin for Firefox a lot!

    It is very useful if your develop web stuff.

    And for performance testing I think JMeter ({Link} is a very powerfull tool !

    Both are free!

    Best Regards Jesper Kiaer

    {Link}

  2. Hi Jake....

    Have you tried the "Fiddler Tool"?....{Link}

    It's free and easy to use!

    Later

    Patrick

  3. Tamper Data (a Firefox extension) is also very helpful. Nomen es omen, you can use it to manipulate what is going over the wire.

  4. FYI, (FWIW) Fiddler requires the .net framework, ~ 20+ MB to download if you haven't already.

    Thanks for the tip, Jake!

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