Gordon’s Place

One of the techniques I often have to resort to when I’m debugging a web application is to examine the HTTP protocol conversation between my browser and the server. Usually this involves installing a sniffer like Ethereal and monitoring and the re-assembling the packets as they hit the ethernet. A couple of days ago, I found something much better suited and easier to use. Tamperdata is a Firefox plugin which will log the HTTP requests going back and forward to the browser. The name and the documentation both imply that it’ll also let you monkey around with the data en-route, but I haven’t much of a need for this. Just being able to switch on and off HTTP logging from the browser is a real winner on it’s own. It’s a free download from the mozilla developer site.