February 1st, 2012· Fixed: An access violation could occur when right clicking on an empty part of the main request grid
February 1st, 2012· New: Supports Mozilla Firefox 10
· New: Supports Windows 7 Taskbar Previews
· New: Uses new style of File dialogs on Windows 7
· New: ID value unique identifies each recorded HTTP request
· New: Connection ID value shows which request used which TCP connection
· New: Supports HAR version 1.2 file import and export
· New: Comments can be added to requests and pages
· Improved: Performance has been improved in several areas including updates to the main grid display and stepping through requests
· New: Fields for CSV export can now be chosen by clicking on a button in the Export dialog
· New: Named cookies, POST values, query string arguments and headers can now be added as columns in the main request grid
· New: Almost any data item in HttpWatch can be quickly added as a request grid column using the context menu
· New: Automation interface has been updated for new data items such as Connection ID and Comments
· New: NextPageComment property on the Plugin object specifies the comment that should be added to the next page recorded by HttpWatch. This provides an easy way to annotate pages while running an automated test script.
· Changed: Automation interface has backwards binary compatibility with version 7.x but not version 6.x
· Fixed: IsLoadingPageEx doesn't return false for at least httpIdle seconds after the last call to GotoURL
December 17th, 2011· New: Supports Firefox 9.
September 29th, 2011· New: Supports Firefox 7.0
· Fixed: 'Out of range column' errors could occur when third party test tools were used to drive the HttpWatch UI
August 10th, 2011· Fixed: HttpWatch would not open in Firefox 5.0.1
June 23rd, 2011· Fixed: The HttpWatch plugin window could be replaced by a gray or black rectangle in Firefox 5.0 when viewing sites with Flash content
April 27th, 2011· Improved: An error message is now displayed if an attempt is made to open HttpWatch in IE 64-bit or a pinned IE 9 site on Windows 7
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: Supports web servers that return lower case status lines, e.g. 'http/1.1 200 OK'
· Fixed: No longer displays an error dialog when attempting to view a corrupted flash file
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: A CHW file could be left in the HttpWatch directory after uninstalling HttpWatch
· Fixed: The first call to the ImageWidth or ImageHeight automation properties would return zero instead of the correct value
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: An access violation could occur when closing the Firefox main window with HttpWatch active
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: Very large values of max-age in the Cache-Control header caused lexical cast errors
· Fixed: The value of max-age was not correctly checked if the Cache-Control header also contained other comma separated values
· Fixed: HttpWatch now handles URLs with user name and password prefixes that contain the $ symbol
· Fixed: A breakpoint exception could occur in Firefox 4.0
· Fixed: Closing Firefox using the CloseBrowser method could cause a deadlock
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: Range and If-Range headers were not correctly displayed in the Headers tab within the Firefox plugin
· Fixed: Version 7.1.30 did not validate the httpVersion value in HAR files correctly
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: A 'Failed to parse status line' error could occur when opening HAR files
· Fixed: Opening a PDF file in IE9 RC would cause a 'Get doc object failed' error
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: The DOM Load and Render Start events now work correctly in IE9 RC
April 27th, 2011· Fixed: The compatibility checking in Firefox has been updated to account for the additional Firefox 4 betas 11 and 12
April 27th, 2011· Improved: The directory used by the Save, ExportCSV, ExportXML, ExportHAR and ExportCSVFields automation methods is no longer restricted when using IE in Protected Mode. Any output file name can be used so long as the automation process has access to the target file and directory
· Improved: The CloseBrowser method now waits for the browser to completely close down before returning. This prevents errors in Firefox when repeatedly open and closing the browser with HttpWatch automation
· Changed: An error is returned if an attempt is made to use Wait(Ex) or IsLoadingPage(Ex) without first calling Record on the Plugin automation object
· Fixed: The recording operation system was displayed as 'Windows 7' when an HWL file was recorded on Window Server 2008 R2
· Fixed: URLs containing a host name with a trailing colon and no port value would cause an 'Invalid source url' error message in IE 6
May 25th, 2010· Fixed: The response from some HTTPS sites was not recorded correctly in the HttpWatch plug-in for IE on Windows Vista and Windows 7
May 13th, 2010· Fixed: A blank gray window could be displayed in IE when attempting to open HttpWatch after a reinstall
· Fixed: The error message 'Failed to get upload data' could be displayed in Firefox 3.6
March 24th, 2010· Fixed: The IE plug-in would not display a single POST parameter correctly in some situations
March 24th, 2010· Fixed: Requests are now recorded correctly when 'Auto-detect proxy settings for this network' is used in Firefox
February 26th, 2010· Changed: Query string parameters in a HAR file are not validated on import if the URL contains invalid characters or malformed escape sequences
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: Attempting to download more than one file at the same time would cause an error if HttpWatch was recording in Firefox 3.5 or later
· Fixed: In Firefox 3.6 a 'pure virtual call' error could occur when clicking on the HttpWatch Stop buttton
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: An error in HttpWatch could occur when opening a new Tab in Firefox 3.6
· Fixed: The HttpWatch plugin for IE did not correctly display the parameters in Microsoft Silverlight POST requests
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: The HttpWatch plug-in would display the error message 'Failed to find window' for some users with Firefox 3.6
· Fixed: The (Status-Line) response header did not contain the HTTP version when importing a HAR file
· Changed: The checking of response header sizes in HAR files is now less strict because Firebug may include headers that were not returned from the server
February 26th, 2010· New: Firefox 3.6 RC1 is now supported
February 26th, 2010· New: Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 is now supported
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: HttpWatch Studio may stop responding while viewing a file from WinZip
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: The 'Open in New Tab' context menu item now uses a new window if tabs have been disabled in IE
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: The Authorization header was not displayed in the Headers tab of the Firefox plug-in during HTTP authentication
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: Windows 7 sometimes displayed the message 'This program might not have installed correctly' after installing HttpWatch
· Fixed: The error 'GotoURL failed' could occur when using the automation API with IE
February 26th, 2010· New: Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 is now supported
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: The Size property of the Content automation object now returns zero for (Aborted) requests instead of raising an error
· Fixed: The Firefox plugin would display the error 'Decompress failed' when attempting to handle invalid compressed data
February 26th, 2010· New: Firefox 3.6 Beta 3 is now supported
· Fixed: Using the HttpWatch plugin for IE and a third party program called Ad Muncher would cause an access violation in IE
February 26th, 2010· Fixed: HttpWatch Basic Edition was incorrectly shown as 'HttpWatch Professional Edition' in the Firefox add-ons list
· Fixed: Repeatedly opening and closing IE browser windows containing HTML frames could cause the error 'InitHttpWatch failed'
February 26th, 2010· New: Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 is now supported
· Fixed: The About box in HttpWatch Basic Edition failed to paint correctly in some situations
· Fixed: Page groups would occasionally be displayed in the wrong sort order
November 11th, 2009· New: Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now supported
October 2nd, 2009· Changed: An error message is now displayed if recording is started in Firefox with HTTP pipelining enabled
· Fixed: Some third party controls for Firefox could cause the error 'Failed to reset POST data'
· Fixed: The export dialog on the Content tab would fail to open if the URL contained a colon character
September 4th, 2009· Fixed: Improved error handling when opening a corrupted HWL file
August 27th, 2009· New: The Properties window now supports Windows 7. Previous versions displayed Windows 7 as 'Windows 6.1'
· New: The Watir sample for IE now uses Controller.IE.New and Watir's attach method to avoid issues with multiple IE 8 processes and protected mode
· Fixed: Some .hwl log files could cause the error 'Start time offset on empty page' when opened in HttpWatch Studio
· Fixed: An access violation could occur when closing HttpWatch Studio
July 2nd, 2009· Fixed: Columns that are wider that a single page are now printed correctly
July 1st, 2009· Fixed: HTTP POSTs on Firefox 2.0 could cause the error message 'Invalid input stream parameter'
June 18th, 2009· Fixed: The error 'Decompress failed - corrupted data - incorrect header check' could occur when using the Find dialog with HTTP requests that contain corrupted compression data
· Fixed : Incomplete requests are now included in the summary values displayed in HttpWatch Studio. In the Firefox and IE plugins requests are not included in Summary statistics until they have been completed
May 15th, 2009· Fixed: Tooltips were not displayed for truncated entries in the main request grid
· Fixed: The Result column now sorts correctly when it contains HTTP status codes and IE/Firefox error names
· Fixed: The error 'GetRow failed' could be displayed when collapsing all page groups
May 8th, 2009· New: The HttpWatch automation interface can now be accessed from 64-bit client programs (e.g. C#, VB.NET or Javascript on Vista 64)
April 30th, 2009· Fixed: HttpWatch could incorrectly report that a Firefox version (e.g. 3.0.7) was not supported
April 30th, 2009· New: Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is now supported.
· Changed: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 and earlier betas are no longer supported
· Fixed: Error 0x804b0044 could be displayed when deleting cache entries in Firefox
· Fixed: Increased the initial height of the HttpWatch plug-in for Firefox
April 25th, 2009· New: Firefox beta names (e.g. Beta 3) are now shown in the Properties window
· Fixed: Corrected some typos in the help file under 'Automating HttpWatch'
· Fixed: The message 'Richedit Assert' could be displayed when opening HttpWatch plug-in for IE
· Fixed: The message 'Internet Explorer has terminated' could be displayed when repeatedly calling IE.New / Plugin.CloseBrowser with IE 8
· Fixed: The message 'Firefox is running and cannot be shutdown' could be displayed when repeatedly calling Firefox.New / Plugin.CloseBrowser
March 11th, 2009· Fixed: The error message 'CException: An invalid argument was encountered' could be displayed when clicking on Record under IE 6
December 11th, 2008· New: Added support for Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
· Changed: Removed support for Firefox 3.1 Beta 1
December 2nd, 2008· Fixed: The Firefox plugin is now installed by default when the HttpWatch installer is run in silent mode (using the /S command line flag). A new /firefox_plugin=0 command line flag can be used to disable Firefox support in silent installations. See 'Silent Install' in the HttpWatch help file for more details about the setup program command line arguments
October 14th, 2008· Fixed: Displaying certain types of Adobe Flash files on Windows Vista could cause the message 'HttpWatch Studio has stopped working'
September 18th, 2008· New: HttpWatch now supports Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 on Windows as well as IE 6, 7 and 8 Beta 2
· New: Added a Properties window that can opened or closed from the View menu. It displays information about the log including browser type, time zone and operating system version
· New: A comment can be assigned to a log file using the Properties window or through the automation interface
· New: The values shown in the Summary window's Timings tab can now be accessed through the automation interface.
· New: Started times can now be displayed as local time, GMT or as an offset from the start of the log
· New: the Timings tab in the Summary window now provides minimum, maximum, average and total for each type of timing (e.g. DNS Lookup, Connect, etc)
· New: Visual Studio style tabs are displayed in HttpWatch Studio for each log file making it easier to switch between files
· New: The automation interface has been updated to support Firefox, timing summaries and log properties
· New: There is now a FireWatir automation sample
· Changed: The shortcut key for the Filter dialog is now Ctrl+F9
· Changed: Removed workaround for modal dialog issue in IE 8 Beta 1. HttpWatch now requires IE 8 Beta 2 or later to work with IE 8
August 20th, 2008· Fixed: The error code 0x800C0019 is now correctly decoded as INET_E_INVALID_CERTIFICATE
July 29th, 2008· Fixed: An access violation could occur when HttpWatch was first opened
July 2nd, 2008· Fixed: In some situations, timing values were incorrectly displayed when moving log files between different types of PC
June 9th, 2008· Improved: The speed at which new requests are added to the main request grid has been improved.
June 7th, 2008· Fixed: Export on the Content tab created zero length files with IE 7 and IE 8 Beta 1 in Protected Mode on Windows Vista
December 20th, 2007· Fixed: Added on-line help for Tools menu items
· Fixed: Plugin object now works correctly with automation clients compiled against HttpWatch version 5.1 or earlier
· Fixed: Improved error handling for cache and cookie clearing commands
August 7th, 2007· Grouping Of Requests By Page: Requests are now grouped by page as shown below. Each page group can be separately expanded or collapsed to aid navigation through large log files.
· Real-Time Page Level Time Charts: Page level time charts are displayed and updated in real-time as you record requests in HttpWatch. This gives a direct, visual indication of how a site is performing - allowing common problems to be diagnosed at a glance
· Real-Time Page Level Summaries: Page level summaries are now displayed and dynamically updated when a page group is selected or collapsed
· Request Level Time Charts: The time chart displayed for each request is broken down into a number of colored sections to show network level timings such as DNS lookup and TCP connects
· Flexible Display Options: The View menu controls how the list of requests is displayed
· Smaller Log Files: The log files recorded by version 5 contain more information, but are up to 75% smaller
October 23rd, 2006· New: Added instructions for opening HttpWatch in IE 7
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