Follow this step-by-step tutorial to learn about some basic HTTP Analyzer features:
1. HTTP Analyzer Stand-alone Edition: Launch it as a standard windows application and open a new IE window
HTTP Analyzer Add-on Edition: click on the HTTP Analyzer icon in the Internet Explorer toolbar to open the HTTP Analyzer window (see launch HTTP Analyzer IE Add-on)
2. Enter "http://www.ieinspector.com/httpanalyzer/test/post_get1.php" in the IE's address bar to navigate to it. Enter "test post" in the test edit and click "submit post".
3. By default, the "start logging"
button is down, if not, click the "start logging" button to capture the HTTP traffic.
4. Now the HTTP Analyzer's session grid displays one or more entries. Notes: if you close the HTTP Analyzer band, it will stop logging requests.
5. Click on the first entry in the Session Grid and notice that the detailed information of individual HTTP session can be viewed in the Session View.
6. In the headers tab, right-click the request-header list and pop up a sensitive menu, then click "view raw data..." to show the raw request-header in a notepad editor. You can also apply the same operation to response-header list.
7. Click the content tab. Notice it shows the HTML source code in the editor tab with syntax color highlighting.
8. Click the content's "browser" tab to show the HTML presentation in the separated browser page.
9. Click the cookies tab to show the cookie sent and received.
10. Click the cache tab to show the "before request and after response" browser cache comparisons.(only IE Edition available)
11. Click the query string tab to show the unescaped parameter list of names and values .
12. Click the post data tab to show the post form values.
13. Click the Stream tab to show the HTTP request and response streams
14. Click the status code definition tab to show the instant help about http status code of the current session.
15. Click the "clear"
button to empty the session grid.
16. Click the "stop"
button to halt the logging.