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windowshttptrafficsniffer

What HTTP traffic monitor would you recommend for Windows?

I need the sniffer to test network traffic of applications developed by me for Windows and Facebook.

Basic requirements:

  • display request and response
  • display HTTP headers
  • display the time it took to complete HTTP request

Now I'm using HTTP Analyzer. A very good tool, but it terminates with some error after 10-15 min running on Vista.

Solution

  • Wireshark if you want to see everything going on in the network.

    Fiddler if you want to just monitor HTTP/s traffic.

    Live HTTP Headers if you're in Firefox and want a quick plugin just to see the headers.

    Also FireBug can get you that information too and provides a nice interface when your working on a single page during development. I've used it to monitor AJAX transactions.