If I were running Windows, this would actually make me use Internet Explorer more. The IEWatch gadget gives you an ?underwater screen? that shows every HTTP transaction made when loading your pages. Great for troubleshooting and debugging, and you don’t have to run tcpdump or sift through mounds of traffic to piece together your web transaction flow. It almost makes up for IE’s atrocious error reporting, and because it shows every 404 or Redirect response that occurred has helped me tremendously in troubleshooting some weird edge case issues at customer installations.
So, dear Lazyweb, does anything like this exist for Firefox? Having this for Safari would be even better, but an IEWatch-like add-in would have the power to make me switch browsers on my Powerbook.
Sander, you can use Live HTTP Headers for Firefox/Mozilla. This is here: http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
Good luck
Live http headers extension is definately the way to go for firefox. For safari you could use paros web proxy http://www.parosproxy.org/index.shtml, it has the benefit of letting you adjust the headers as they go through and do a bit of penetration testing.
FWIW, your description sounds rather like my cg-eye utility, which goes back to 1997. Its predecessor the Header Dumper (display all request and response headers in a single request) completes the decade.
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