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DESCRIPTION

HTTP Scoop is an HTTP protocol analyser a.k.a. "HTTP sniffer". It passively captures HTTP conversations and presents their details in real-time.

  • Use to debug web scripts/applications
  • View responses as hex, text (syntax-highlighted for XML/HTML) or as images
  • Any browser or server technology - no proxy needed
  • View headers, parameters and POST data
  • Save responses to disk
  • Fully decodes HTTP (handles GZIP compression, request pipelining etc.)

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4:
  • HTTP performance analysis
  • Easier navigation
  • Faster, less memory hungry, more stable
  • Slicker updates
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Tuffcode
Downloads:4,886
  - Version d/l:2,512
Development:Networks
License:Demo
Date:10 Jul 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$20.00
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Jul 16 2007
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BUTCHANTON  I develop Web 2.0 applications for a living and I have to say, HTTPScoop ROCKS! No more trying to piece together tcp dumps and stuff split across multiple packets. No more trying to get Firebug to stick around and keep analyzing during various redirects. This thing just works, and it works well! Three thumbs up!  
(Version 1.4)

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Jan 28 2006
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BOZOCLOWN  I've been looking for something easier to use than Ethereal when debugging HTTP server requests and HTTP Scoop seems to fit the bill. It works right out of the box (for example, it correctly chose the en1 interface on my Airport connected laptop rather than making me figure that out) and it automatically captures and decodes HTTP traffic as advertised. It shows as much detail about each request as anyone could wish for from the complete headers down to the TCP/IP protocol exchange. There are some user interface oddities but polish is a lot easier to add than basic functionality which the app already has.  
(Version 1.1)

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Jan 25 2006

SANWAMAC  sudo tcpflow -c

it's free  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 25 2006

GAOSHAN  Excellent advice. For those who don't know, your Mac has TONS of useful, free, unix programs available.

However, tcpflow isn't one of them (at least not for the client versions of Tiger). To get a copy for yourself visit: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/#tcpflow  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 26 2006

JAYRAY  Being familiar with tools such as tcpflow/tcpdump/ethereal etc. gives you another important benefit too: portability. You can use them in the same way whether you're sitting in front of an OS X, Linux, Solaris or HP-UX box and whether or not you have a window manager available. You also don't need to be sitting near the box you're monitoring - you just telnet/ssh over there and execute the capture remotely.

However, none of these tools fully decode HTTP. Say you want to see what HTML your webserver or appserver is spitting out, but the server's using GZIP content encoding. You'll just get gibberish being printed out.

Try doing 'sudo tcpflow -c' and point your browser at slashdot.org or google.com and you'll see what I mean!

As well as extra decoding, HTTP Scoop gives you a UI which does things like HTML/XML syntax highlighting, hex dumps etc. Maybe not essential, but nice to have.

I'm not knocking tcpflow etc; just pointing out that they're different tools for different jobs... but then again, I'm not entirely unbiased ;-)

James

Tuffcode Ltd  
(Version 1.1)

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