HTTP Debugger Pro Changes


v7.15 Mar 1, 2017

Improvements

  • Simplified the main lists's context menu.
  • Updated the list of UserAgent strings for HTTP Submitter.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with displaying WebSocket frames.
  • Fixed a bug with resetting selection in main list.
  • Fixed a bug with applying the UserAgent string in HTTP Submitter.


v7.14 Feb 20, 2017

Improvements

  • Minor UI improvements.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with applying and saving the HTTP Responder, Redirector и Modifier rules.
  • Fixed a bug with clearing the captured data.


v7.13 Jan 31, 2017

Improvements

  • Improved the data display in the Structure View.
    • Added column Count
    • Columns Size and Count now show the statistics for the selected items
    • Added the functionality for copying of a URL, Type, Domain, IP Address for the selected items
    • Request/Response Details, Summary, Timeline, Sizes, Types, Domains, Duration panels show the summary for the selected items
  • Added data export in the JSON and XML formats.
  • Improved application performance.
  • Improved the processing of the SSL connections.
  • Improved antivirus compatibility.
  • Minor UI improvements.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a rare crash while closing the software.
  • Fixed a rare crash while applying filtering and highlighting rules.
  • Fixed a bug with exporting data into the XML session file.
  • Fixed a minor bug with Find dialogs.

Other Changes

  • To avoid receiving the responses with unsupported encoding types, HTTP Debugger modifies the Accept-Encoding field in the HTTP Request headers.


v7.12 Jan 13, 2017

Improvements

  • Added the Show Only filters. Now it is possible to see the HTTP traffic only for the selected applications, IP Addresses and Host names.
  • Added displaying of Connection Failures.
  • Added functionality to copy Type, Domain, IP Address from the Grid's Context Menu.
  • Added functionality to URL, Type, Domain, IP Address from the Grid's Context Menu for all selected elements.
  • Improved data presentation in the Sizes, Types, Domains and Durations panes.
  • Improved speed for applying Filters.
  • Improved the general performance of the software.
  • Improved the detection of the second instance HTTP Debugger UI and if HTTP Debugger Service is running.
  • Simplified the HTTP Debugger UI by moving the Traffic Modifiers and Compare Selected Items from the Main Tab to the Tools.
  • Simplified the Grid's Context Menu by removing the commands for the Traffic Modifiers and Compare Selected Items.
  • Fully rewrote the code of the HTTP Debugger UI and HTTP Debugger Service interaction (IPC), which improved the general performance and fixed some random crashes.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed random crashes.
  • Fixed the bug with Timings display.
  • Fixed the bug with cleaning of the Request/Response Panes for the Clear Logs click.
  • Fixed the bug with disappearing of the Add button in the Rules panel after adding a new Filtering/Highlighting rule.
  • Fixed the bug with updating of the Request/Response Panes while selecting several items in the Grid.

Other Changes

  • Removed the option for displaying of the server traffic.


v7.11 Nov 15, 2016

Improvements

  • Added support for Websockets.
  • Added the ability to enable/disable HEX view mode in Content pane.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with resetting selection in Content pane.
  • Fixed bug with saving bookmarks in session file.


v7.10 Oct 17, 2016

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed performance issue on Windows 7.
  • Fixed bug with incomplete requests/responses on Windows 7.


v7.9 Oct 5, 2016

Improvements

  • Added the ability to create highlighting rules by user name.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with monitoring localhost via IPv6.
  • Fixed bug with applying filtering and highlighting rules to non-English strings.


v7.8 Sep 28, 2016

Improvements

  • Reports and Diagrams now use the same UI theme as the main application.
  • Simplified Bar, Pie and Stacked diagrams.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with applying filtering rules.
  • Fixed bug with applying highlighting rules.
  • Fixed crash with applying a filtering rule to the selected item.

Other Changes

  • Removed Doughnut and Area diagrams.
  • Removed outdated 3D diagram themes.


v7.7 Sep 19, 2016

Improvements

  • Added full compatibility with Windows 10 1607 version.
  • Improved performance of HTTP Engine.
  • Improved processing of SSL certificates.

Bug Fixes

  • Minor UI bug fixes.

Other Changes

  • HTTP Debugger components now are signed with Extended Validation Certificate (EV).
  • HTTP Debugger network driver passed Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher review.


v7.6 Sep 9, 2016

Improvements

  • Added Free Express version for Session File Sharing.
    Now anyone can use HTTP Debugger Express version to record HTTP traffic locally and send you session file to help you remotely diagnose and fix errors or performance issues.
  • Minor UI improvements.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with saving Settings file.


v7.5 July 27, 2016

Improvements

  • Added Visual Studio 2015 like Dark and Light user interface themes.
  • Improved Microsoft Office 2013 like White user interface theme.
  • Added the ability to apply Highlighting and Filtering rules with one click.

Other Changes

  • Removed outdated Microsoft Office 2007 like user interface themes.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with applying UI theme on File menu dialog.
  • Fixed an issue with applying UI theme on HTTP Submitter dialog.
  • Fixed an issue with applying UI theme on URL Converter dialog.
  • Fixed an issue with applying UI theme on syntax highlighter dialog.
  • Fixed an issue with applying UI theme on image viewer dialog.


v7.4 July 12, 2016

Improvements

  • Added the ability to simulate server reply with 200, 302, 304, 404, 500 and 503 status codes with one click.
  • Added the ability to simulate server reply with modified script code (or any file) with one click.
  • Added the ability to transparently redirect TCP/IP connections from production server to locally running server with one click.
  • Added the ability to change UserAgent, Hostname, add CORS headers, inject script, disable caching and remove cookies with one click.
  • Added the ability create filtering rules for Host, IP, Application and User Name with one click.
  • Added the ability create highlighting rules for Duration, Size, Speed, Url, Domain, IP, Type, Status, Method and Application with one click.
  • Modified requests now are marked with an icon in the grid.
  • Added the ability to copy the request content from context menu.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with wrong selection in grids.
  • Fixed an issue with displaying wrong content size in grid.
  • Fixed an issue with executing regular expressions in RegexTester.
  • Fixed an issue with executing multiple HTTP modifier rules.
  • Fixed an issue with executing multiple filtering rules.

Other Changes

  • Simplified UI.
  • Improved Save/Export content for Stream and Structure modes.
  • Removed Conditional Bookmarks.
  • Removed List Mode.
  • Removed Application, 'Show Only', Protocol и Direction options for filters.
  • Removed Application, Protocol и Direction options for modifiers.
  • Removed Indicate Connection requests option from HTTP Engine settings.
  • Now HTTP Debugger softly resets connections during start-up and applying HTTP modification rules.


v7.3 June 7, 2016

Improvements

  • HTTP traffic for locally running web servers is now displayed in a separate tab.
  • Improved Reports.
  • Improved Charts and Diagrams.

Other Changes

  • Removed minimize to tray option.
  • Removed Traffic Meter pane.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the bug with displaying incorrect timings offset for server traffic.


v7.2 May 8, 2016

Improvements

  • Working with loop-back addresses for Window 8, 8.1 and 10.
  • Minor UI improvments.


v7.1 April 30, 2016

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Unsigned Driver issue when installing on Windows 7 x64 SP1 without Security Update KB3033929.

Improvements

  • Minor improvments.


v7.0 April 19, 2016

Improvements

  • The HTTP Intercepting engine has been completely rewritten.
  • HTTP Debugger now uses SHA-256 certificates to decrypt SSL connections.
  • Installation moved to Windows Installer Technology (.msi package).

Other Changes

  • Now users must manually activate Decrypt SSL feature.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with sending HTTPs requests from HTTP Submitter.
  • Fixed compatibility issues with Windows Defender.
  • Fixed compatibility issues with some antiviruses.
v6.6 April 2, 2015

Improvements

  • Added ability to ignore SSL certificate errors in HTTP Submitter.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with processing 101 HTTP responses.
  • Fixed an issue with parsing chunked encoding.
  • Fixed an issue with processing TCP context.


v6.5 October 17, 2014

Improvements

  • Improved performance of HTTP Engine.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with parsing of non-standard HTTP requests and responses.
  • Fixed bug with parsing of chunked HTTP requests not-having Content-Length header.
  • Fixed bug with processing of special characters like '\n' and '\t' in RegExp Tester.
  • Fixed bug with processing OpenSSL data.
  • Fixed compatibility issues with Fiddler and NodeJS.


v6.4 August 5, 2014

Improvements

  • Added API.
    • capture and analyze all HTTP traffic directly from applications in C++, C# and Java;
    • log all HTTP traffic to a disk from PowerShell and NodeJS automation scripts, with the ability to import those logs to HTTP Debugger UI.
  • Added functionality to edit the HTTP Engine Settings, including:
    • starting of HTTP interception engine together with MS Windows start or HTTP Debugger lunch;
    • enabling/disabling of HTTPS Traffic decoding;
    • setting the exclusion list for selected applications, which traffic will not be monitored.
  • Improved HTTP Filtering:
    • added ability to filter by IP address and port;
    • improved performance.
  • Added ability to show Failed Connection Requests.
  • Added export/import of HTTP Debugger settings.
  • Improved HTTP Highlighting:
    • dialog became mode-less;
    • current rules are optimized;
    • added support for RegExp rules.
  • Improved Conditional Bookmarks:
    • dialog became mode-less;
    • added support for RegExp rules.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with modification of compressed HTTP content in HTTP Modifier.
  • Fixed bug with maximizing of HTTP Debugger’s window on the second monitor.
  • Fixed bug with saving IP address while saving/restoring sessions.
  • Fixed bug with data display after the Clear Logs operation.
  • Fixed bug with exporting the ID and offset fields to MS Excel.
  • Fixed bug with reports while displaying Header and Content Size.
  • Fixed bug with SSL decoding for some sites.


v6.3 June 17, 2014

Improvements

  • Added new Timeline pane showing millisecond accurate request/response timings.
  • Added new Sizes pane showing HTTP session sizes in charts.
  • Added new Types pane showing statistics by content types in charts.
  • Added new Domains pane showing statistics by domains in charts.
  • Added new Durations pane showing HTTP session durations in charts.
  • HTTP Request and Response panes now show advanced statistics for selected items.
  • HTTP Request and Response panes now sort data for more convenient view.
  • SaveSumary now exports expanded data on request/response timings.
  • Added new Compression Size in Summary Pane (for multiple selected elements).
  • Added new Requests Total and Time Total in Status Bar.
  • HTTP Submitter now automatically counts the Content Length.
  • Performance has been improved significantly.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug in HTTP Submitter related to selecting of User Agent.
  • Fixed bug in refreshing the panes while switching.
  • Fixed bug in displaying of the compressed response content (gzip, deflate, etc).
  • Fixed bug of multiple selection of elements in Structure grid (some elements were double selected).
  • Fixed bug in counting Content Size because of the gzip compression.
  • Fixed bug in displaying of incoming connections.


v6.2 May 19, 2014

Improvements

  • Added new Auto-Responder tool allowing to simulate server responses with custom HTTP headers and content.
  • Added new HTTP Modifier tool allowing to modify HTTP traffic on the fly.
  • Added new TCP/IP Redirector tool allowing you to redirect TCP/IP connections transparently from one IP address and port to another.
  • Added new Regexp Tester tool allowing you to create quickly and to test regular expressions for Auto-Responder and HTTP Modifier.


v6.1 April 10, 2014

Improvements

  • Added functionality to Edit & Reply of the selected HTTP request.
  • Added functionality to export Summary & Headers for selected items.
  • Added functionality to specify the Time-out for the HTTP Submitter.
  • HTTP Submitter window converted to modeless dialog.
  • Improved the HTTP Submitter UI theme.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the crash of expanding grouped items in the Grid.
  • Fixed the bug with processing of the large HTTP Headers.


v6.0 March 5, 2014

Working With Data

  • Added the Export Content Files feature in chronological and structural orders.
  • Added the New Structure Grid with functionality to view the website structure in a hierarchical tree-like format.
  • Added functionality to copy Request’s URL, selected Row and Image from Grids' context menu.
  • Added Grid Icons illustrating the content type of received HTTP Responses.

New XML, JSON and FORM Data Panes

  • Added a pane to view XML data in a hierarchical tree-like format.
  • Added a pane to view JSON data in a hierarchical tree-like format.
  • Added the FORM Data viewer pane showing the HTTP POST parameters for application/x-www-form-urlencoded type requests.

Improved Image and Summary Panes

  • Significantly improved the Image Viewer pane. Added functionality to copy an image to clipboard, to save image to disk, to rotate, to flip and to mirror.
  • For Summary Pane added functionality to show the detailed information of a selected image, including the size, bpp, resolution, number of colors and animation frames, and Exif.
  • The Summary Pane now shows the summary for multiple selected requests.

Other Changes

  • Improved the Code Viewer with functionality to show/hide line numbers and collapse/expand code blocks (code folding).
  • The Code Viewer now automatically formats optimized and poorly-formatted XML and JSON files.
  • Improved the HTTP Interception Engine.
  • Added the Microsoft Ribbon 2013 Theme.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the bug with the Export Summary
  • Fixed the bug with Quick Filter for Grid’s Advanced Tree Mode.
  • Fixed the bug with voluntary scrolling to the focused row in the Grid while receiving data.
  • Fixed the bug with adding numeric Highlighting Rules.
  • Fixed the bug with the causal stopping of the HTTP Debugger Service (the Interception Engine).
  • Fixed the bug with HTTP Submitter to make SSL requests.
  • Fixed the bug with exporting data into Excel.
  • Fixed the Out of Memory bug shown for some URLs.
  • Fixed the compatibility issue with TeamViewer.
  • Other minor bug fixes and improvements
v5.3 January 10, 2014
The HTTP Submitter have been improved.

v5.2 December 4, 2013
The Interception Engine was improved. Now the HTTP Debugger displays the HTTP traffic for connections opened before the application start.
The IP address of a remote server is now displayed in the grid.
All incoming server connections are marked with a special icon in the grid.

v5.1 November 12, 2013
Fixed the bug with retrieving the user and program name for Windows System Services.
Fixed the bug with displaying a html in preview pane.

v5.0 Final October 1, 2013
Fixed compatibility issues with MS Outlook.
Fixed the bug with system large fonts.

v5.0 Beta September 23, 2013
The GUI and the Interception Engine were fully reworked.
Added support for HTTPS / SSL for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.
Added support for Windows 8 Metro applications.
Fixed compatibility issues with Windows XP.
v4.7 October 19, 2012
Added the ability to hide selected items from the list.
Minor user interface improvements.

v4.6 October 25, 2011
Added the ability to compare and find differences between two HTTP transactions. Comparison can be made for HTTP headers and / or content files.

v4.5 May 25, 2011
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

v4.4 December 22, 2010
Added the Conditional Bookmarks. Now the HTTP request and responses can be bookmarked automatically if they match the rules, that can be specified for both the HTTP headers and the HTTP content.
Fixed the bug with the processing of the filtering rules in the Quotation Marks.

v4.3 August 18, 2010
Added the verification for the Google Chrome and the Networking Mode
Fixed the bug with using of two or more 'show only' filters

v4.2 May 25, 2010
Added selection of the Networking Mode: Standard Mode - compatible with the most applications; and Advanced Mode - to monitor the HTTP traffic from the System Services, the Google Chrome and other applications using the overloaded socket calls.

v4.1 May 20, 2010
Added the ability to show the HTTP traffic from web servers running on the local computer.
The HTTP Intercepting Engine has been significantly improved.
The bug has been fixed with processing HTTP Submitter query strings.
The bug has been fixed with Advanced Search.
The bug has been fixed with processing of the HTTP traffic in the 64-bit Internet Explorer.
The bug has been fixed with displaying the HTTP traffic of the Google Chrome browser and other programs using the overlapped socket calls.

v3.6 October 6, 2009
Added the new Advanced Reporting feature. Now you can generate any kind of reports on the collected traffic data, which can be exported to an HTML or TSV (tab-separated) file or to Microsoft Excel.
Fixed the memory leak occurring while working with the HTTP Debugger intensively.

v3.5 August 21, 2009
Added the new Bookmarks feature. Now you can set bookmarks in the main list for quicker navigation.
Added the new Advanced Tree View mode. Now you can switch between two presentation modes: Flat View and Tree View.
Added the new Traffic Meter pane. Now you can see the HTTP traffic dynamics.
The Time Charts have been improved.
Saving to Log Files has been improved.
The List Control performance has been improved.
The bug with duplicating of the Filtering and Highlighting Rules during program's upgrade has been fixed.
The documentation has been significantly updated.

v3.4 July 24, 2009
Added the new Time Charts feature. Now you can see the real-time activity of website's various components and/or server applications.
Added the new Minimize to Tray feature. Now you can hide the HTTP Debugger Pro window from the Taskbar. The application continues working on the background.
Charts has been improved. Now you can scroll large charts and set new chart filters.
The performance of list control has been improved.
The bug has been fixed with HTTP Submitter controls layout.
The bug has been fixed with highlighting the speed column in the main list.

v3.3 March 11, 2009
Added new feature: Reset Panes. Now you can restore the default layout of the program panes.
Diagrams have been improved.
Minor GUI improvements and bug fixes.

v3.2 January 19, 2009
Added new feature: Save/Restore HTTP Debugger Sessions. Now you can save all captured HTTP data including the content files to the hard disk for future analysis. Your website visitors may send you the session files allowing you to identify and fix your website problems.

v3.1 November 25, 2008
The HTTP Intercepting Engine has been improved.
Added the ability to start/pause the HTTP Interception Process.
The bug has been fixed with occasional resetting of filtering and highlighting rules within the trial period.

v2.9 October 9, 2008
Added the ability to set filtering rules for User Name, Program Name and HTTP Method.
The bug has been fixed with adding extra quotation marks to the filter values.

v2.8 August 5, 2008
Added support for secure HTTPS/SSL Internet connections for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
The bug has been fixed with processing small (less then 1Kb) gzip encoded HTTP content files.

v2.7 July 24, 2008
Added support for 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista.
The bug has been fixed with processing large HTTP content files in HEX Viewer.

v2.6 July 1, 2008
Added HTTP Submitter.
The HTTP Intercepting engine was significantly improved.

v2.5 May 21, 2008
Added Statistics Module.
Now you can view various statistical information about your web site in the presentable form of charts and diagrams.

v2.4 April 16, 2008
Added new feature: URL/Text/File Convertor (URL/Base64/Hex encodings).
Added new panes: Request/Response Header, Request/Response Content, URL Parameters and Cookies.
Added new views: Request Stream and Response Stream.
Improved syntax highlighting for HTML/XML/JScript/VBScript and CSS documents.
Added the ability to set highlighting rules for User/Program/Domain names, Content Type, Status Line and URLs.
All major dialogs are now resizable and save their positions.

v2.3 March 17, 2008
Added the ability to search texts in HTTP headers and content files.
Fixed compatibility problems with Microsoft Outlook.
Minor user interface improvements.

v2.2 February 20, 2008
The bug has been fixed with processing very long (more then 2 Kb) URLs.
The bug has been fixed with processing incorrectly formatted HTTP Requests send by Opera.
The bug has been fixed with allocating large memory blocks on Microsoft Windows Vista.

v2.1 (final version) February 13, 2008
Added Speed, Raw Content Size and Compression Ratio.
Minor improvements and bug fixes, in response to user bug reports.

v2.1 (beta 2) December 13, 2007
Minor improvements and bug fixes.

v2.1 (beta) December 8, 2007
The performance and user interface has been significantly improved.
Added HTML, JScript, VBScript, CSS and XML syntax highlighting.
The HTTP Debugger Pro 2.1 now is fully based on the new HTTP Debugger SDK v1.0.

v1.2 August 30, 2007
The program's documentation has been significantly updated.
The bug has been fixed with the incorrect trial version expiration on Microsoft Windows Vista.
The bug has been fixed with leaving partially deleted groups in the Start menu of Microsoft Windows Vista.
HTTP Debugger Pro has been moved from SoftX.org to HTTPDebugger.com, the new home of the program.

v1.1 August 15, 2007
Minor improvements and bug fixes.

v1.0 July 14, 2007
Initial release.


HTTP Debugger Lite Changes

v4.4 August 30, 2007
The program's documentation has been updated.
The bug has been fixed with the incorrect trial version expiration on Microsoft Windows Vista.
The bug has been fixed with leaving partially deleted groups in the Start menu of Microsoft Windows Vista.
HTTP Debugger Lite has been moved from SoftX.org to HTTPDebugger.com, the new home of the program.

v4.3 April 5, 2007
Added the ability to detach the HTTP Debugger from the running program.

v4.2 March 14, 2007
Added the ability to measure the time taken to download a page in milliseconds.
Fixed the bug with processing HTTP content files.

v4.1 November 21, 2006
The version v4.1 is now fully compatible with Microsoft's upcoming new version of Microsoft Windows Vista.

v3.5 August 28, 2006
Added the ability to measure the time taken to download a page (or any resource from your web server).

v3.4 August 14, 2006
Program's documentation has been significantly updated.

v3.3 July 29, 2006
An Auto-counter has been added.

v3.2 July 11, 2006
Added the Summary (details) pane, enabling the requested URL to be viewed in a tabular format.
Added the ability to set the delimiter character whilst exporting the Summary Log File.
Fixed the bug with exporting the Summary Log File.

v3.1 May 10, 2006
Added the ability to view the request and response content in the built-in web browser control.
A couple of bugs were fixed, in response to user bug reports.

v2.2 February 3, 2006
Totally renewed user interface.

v2.1 January 24, 2006
Added the ability to automatically process chunked encoded content.

v1.2 October 14, 2005
Added the ability to automatically process gzip encoded content.


HTTP Debugger SDK Changes


v1.0 (final version) February 22, 2008
Added one more C++ sample.
The bug has been fixed with decoding gzipped content.
Minor improvements and bug fixes, in response to user bug reports.

v1.0 (beta) September 16, 2007
Initial release.