HTTP Analyzer is a sniffer or viewer that allows you to monitor and inspect HTTP/HTTPS traffic in real-time. It is used by industry-leading companies including Microsoft, Cisco, AOL and Google.

It can trace and display wide range of information, including Header, Content, Cookies, Query Strings, Post data, Request and Response Stream, redirection URLs and more. It has a request builder that enables you to handcraft a HTTP/HTTPS Request.

IE HTTP Analyzer is a program that allows you to capture HTTP traffic.It also provides cache information and session clearing, as well as HTTP status code information and several filtering options. A useful developer tool for performance analysis, debugging and diagnostics.

HTTP Analyzer includes two Editions---Standard EXE Edition and IE Add-in Edition.

HTTP Analyzer Standard EXE Edition :Standard windows EXE application. It can capture any process's HTTP/HTTPS traffic in current user session. It has the ability to capture HTTP information in Windows applications without launching them from HTTP Analyzer. HTTPS is available if the application uses the Microsoft WININET API (ex. ie, outlook) or Mozilla NSS API. (ex. firefox, thunderbird)

HTTP Analyzer IE Add-in Edition( IE HTTP Analyzer) : An IE Add-in that integrates into the lower part of your IE browser window and can be opened/closed from the IE toolbar. It can only capture HTTP/HTTPS traffic of current IE process.

What does HTTP Analyzer do for you?
· Performance Analysis and HTTP Diagnostics for Web application
· Debug web application, know exactly what and when are sent and received
· Detect bottlenecks and discover surprisingly slow parts of the web application by measuring download times, content length, caching or the number of network round trips
· Verify that a secure web site is not issuing sensitive data in cookies or headers
· Explore what the JavaScript on a web page is actually doing
· Analyze the web sites you are interested in and learn their tricks
· Help to learn HTTP protocol, know its inner work
· Increase your web development productivity

Here are some key features of "IE HTTP Analyzer":

· Integrate with IE, capture HTTP traffic directly in browser window (IE Add-in Edition)
· Dedicated to HTTP protocol, show a wide range of HTTP related information, request and response header, content, sent and received cookies, stream, query strings, post form values...
· Request builder, Users can handcraft an HTTP request by using the HTTP Request Builder, or they can use a drag-and-drop operation to move an existing request from the session grid to the Request Builder to execute it again.
· Hex Viewer allow users to view and edit binary files in hexadecimal and textual format.
· Displays Winsock traffic originating from Java applets and JavaScript embedded in a Web page, displays Winsock traffic originating from ActiveX controls and COM objects instanced by an application (Standard EXE Edition Only)
· Compare requests by selecting two requests.
· Before request and after response" browser cache comparisons
· Support HTTPS, show you unencrypted data sent over HTTPS / SSL connections, HTTPS is available if the application uses the Microsoft WININET API (ex. ie, outlook) or Mozilla NSS API. (ex. firefox, thunderbird)
· Organize HTTP/HTTPS Information into sessions for easy identification of requests and responses
· Selectively clear caches and cookies which are related with HTTP/HTTPS sessions
· MS Excel style data filtering, customize filter criteria against any data item
· Automatic click-sorting against an unlimited number of columns, descending or ascending
· Automatic data grouping - an extremely powerful data viewing and manipulation metaphor
· Automatic runtime column selection - easily customize the columns visible on-screen with intuitive drag and drop
· HTML, CSS, JavaScript, color syntax highlighting
· Instant help on HTTP status code
· Export Grid to XML, MS Excel, HTML, Text
· Easy to install and require no reboot. It doesn't change your Windows system files and no device drivers or proxies have to be installed
· Support IE7

Requirements:

· Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or Higher

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period
· Only displays extended HTTP information for a limited number of sites
· After it expires, trial version user still can record http log files and send log files to a licensed user to illustrate a problem without having to purchase extra licenses.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New: Deserialize XML-RPC traffic into the easy-to-use object trees.
· New: Deserialize JSON-RPC traffic into the easy-to-use object trees.
· Fixed: An IE Add-on automation library compatibility bug with Windows 2003 server.