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HTTP request and response data tool
Testing the API or pressure test.
HTTP headers generator
- Apache Jmeter v. 2.7[1]
- approach 1: (1) Add config element: HTTP request defaults (2) Add Sampler: HTTP request (3) Add Listener: View results tree (4) Run the test plan
- approach 2: (1) install unofficial jmeter-plugins (2) Add Sampler: jp@gc - HTTP Raw Request[2] (3) Add Listener: View results tree (4) Run the test plan
- Fiddler free web debugging proxy for Win
telnet localhost 80 "header content" Enter Enter
- Postman (documentation) & Postman Interceptor for Chrome
Display HTTP headers of a web page
- Chrome : Press F12 to open the Developer Tools window -> Switch to Network panel -> Click the Headers to display the HTTP headers of a web page. (1)Section Query String Parameters for HTTP GET request (2)Section Form Data for HTTP POST request. Further reading: Chrome DevTools — Google Developers
- Firebug for Firefox : Menu -> Net
- LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox
- Masquerading Your Browser: also offer the tool HTTP Header Viewer [Last visited: 2012-05-16]
- curl e.g. Input the command curl -L -I <URL>[Last visited: 2018-09-20]
- Option -L, --location "If the server reports that the requested page has moved to a different location (indicated with a Location: header and a 3XX response code)." quoted from manual.
- Option -I, --head "Fetch the headers only!" quoted from manual.
- Wget - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation e.g. Input the command wget -S --spider <URL> [3][Last visited: 2018-09-20]
- Option -S, --server-response "Print the headers sent by HTTP servers and responses sent by FTP servers." quoted from manual.
- Option --spider "When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web spider, which means that it will not download the pages, just check that they are there." quoted from manual.
$ curl -L -I https://www.google.com HTTP/2 200 date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:56:29 GMT expires: -1 cache-control: private, max-age=0 content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 p3p: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info." server: gws x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN set-cookie: 1P_JAR=2018-09-20-02; expires=Sat, 20-Oct-2018 02:56:29 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com set-cookie: NID=139=DXgMIx0L06ZUBLaTUD2J_pqIvfgSEo945An0URyIwGqVf_NOxPcHcaAxhNwNforv-Lw0-m6DSKX-y1wz0EhuC-tdzLHPyWYqLVOdu7VBgjH9spnMr_2MfY79uh05aYuH; expires=Fri, 22-Mar-2019 02:56:29 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly alt-svc: quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="44,43,39,35" accept-ranges: none vary: Accept-Encoding
other tools
- Packet sniffer: Wireshark, URL Snooper
- Poster[1] for Firefox
- HttpWatch 9.0: HTTP Sniffer for IE , Firefox and iPhone
- Steps to view the POST data: (1)start recording HTTP requests (2)click URL (3)switch the label to POST Data
Web page compression check
online gzip test
- GIDZipTest: Web Page Compression (Deflate / Gzip) Test - GIDNetwork: A simple online web page compression / deflate / gzip test tool
- Port80 Software » Products » File Compression for IIS Servers
- Web Ping
- List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- html - capturing ajax requests - Stack Overflow [Last visited: 2015-09-01]