Monday, August 17, 2009

Helpful Tool: Wireshark

When you're doing web testing, whether it's functional or performance, it's always a good idea to be able to "see" exactly what's going across the wire. That's where Wireshark comes in. Wireshark is an open source packet monitoring tool that lets you see each individual request that's made, and the response that gets returned. It's available for Windows, OS X & Linux, and can be downloaded for free from here:

www.wireshark.org
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  1. AlexAugust 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM

    I'm a huge fan of wireshark. Very helpful for security, and as a simple, quick way to see the data going across.
    Also great for troubleshooting networking issues.

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