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HTTP View — Supercharged HTTP(S) debugging, in one click
HTTP View is an x-ray for HTTP(S), for debugging, building, testing & reverse-engineering anything that speaks HTTP.
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Always good to see a product coming out of my hometown.
How is this different from Wireshark or tcpdump, though?
@hasan_diwan Try to capture, decrypt, and make sense of an HTTPS session, in 3 minutes, starting from nothing, in either of those tools. Better yet, try to do it in 24 hours with no prior knowledge of capturing HTTPS traffic. This tool has no parallel.
The key is that it effortlessly supports HTTP(S). Setting up proxy interception and an HTTPS man-in-the-middle is not so easy with low level tools, but here it's all done automatically for you. Being able to interpret the exchanges with a deep understanding of HTTP, and the specific HTTP API you're talking to, then adds a huge amount of context on top.
Hi Tim. I love the UI, good job. Do you plan to add a way to mofify and reply the requests ? I would to have this features :)
@jeremie_olivier That's coming very soon! HTTP View is the first release, with a lot of features but all read only. The next big step is exactly what you're looking for: live editing of intercepted requests & responses, and everything that relates to that (like automatic mocked APIs).
If you're interested, sign up for the release mailing list ('Sign up for updates' at the bottom of https://httptoolkit.tech/view/, or the email signup after the app download), every big release will get published there.
@enthusiausted I used to use Fiddler ages ago (for Windows - there's also Charles for OSX people), and proxies like that are super useful for development, but they haven't been updated in forever, they're a pain to set up, and they don't work cross-platform at all (so on Linux, you're totally out of luck).
I'd been building some open-source HTTP tools (https://github.com/httptoolkit/m...) for a while already, and I realised I could make a much more powerful & useful alternative to the existing options by just wrapping a UI around my own tools, so I did exactly that at the start of this year. Seemed very popular, so now I'm trying to build it out into something bigger!
This looks very interesting. Perhaps a tool that has been missing from my development workflow?
@jamesivings Thanks! I hope so :D. I built it because there was definitely something missing from mine - being able to see & debug the HTTP your code is sending is super useful, and surprisingly difficult to do yourself.
@sam_ayres Postman is an HTTP client, which lets you build & send individual HTTP requests to a service.
HTTP Toolkit lets you intercept all HTTP, from apps like Postman, from Chrome, from a command line tool, or a backend service, and explore & examine the HTTP you're already sending, so you can understand what an existing tool/app/website/codebase is doing.
In future there might be more overlap, but for now they're very nicely complimentary tools.
Amazing!
I like this product, far more usable than dev tools from chrome, and postman interceptor. Just miss the functionality of import/Export.
This tool is awesome plain and simple. Even in it's initial release state it has both saved me time and allowed continuation on projects that were sidelined due to, well due to not having this tool. When the additional 1-click capture options are implemented, there will truly be no parallel to HTTP Toolkit. So much easier than fiddling around with a MITM proxy, one click and you're off! Keep an eye on this one!
Pros:Fills a much needed gap in HTTPS debugging and reverse engineering Very responsive developer
Cons:Browser detection can glitch out and not realize you have Firefox installed
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