httpSpy for Firefox!

Posted by Phil on May 28, 2008 under Web Development | Read the First Comment

This morning I stumbled onto a real treat for those developers that are using Firefox.  Backstory: A while ago Ninja had suggested that we use a little program called “httpSpy” for debuging the header information that was being served/requested by our server/browser (very useful to find obscured links, what items are really being loaded on a page, and what connections are being secured).  The problem is that while the program is awesome (and extremely hard to find as there are 3 or 4 variants on a google search that are all different), it only works with IE.  Naturally, this is undoubtedly causing a shudder and a distinct feeling of betrayal to surge up from the depths of your soul .  The time of IE only debugging is at an end…  Introducing “Live HTTP headers”, a fantastic little tool that pops up in a different window that will show you your requests and let you resend them ( with some modifications) and logs everything being passed to and from the server/browser.  While I haven’t really played with it for more than a few minutes, it seems like a good tool, and I’d recommend throwing it in the arsenal.

Live HTTP headers – can be downloaded here (link goes to the mozilla add-on site, as I did not grab the xpi file). It also works with FFox3RC1 .