Tuesday, November 17, 2009

HTTP-Watch-know-everything-when-a Webpage loads


Ever wondered what is happening back-stage when your Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox is loading a web-page?

There are lots of HTTP requests being processes, lots of scripts being executed. A lot of stuff happens. If you want to know the detail about all these background activities, you can do it free. HTTP-Watch is a free tool for HTTP sniffing which works right inside yourInternet Explorer or Firefox and will capture each and every activity of the webpage load. You can use this tool to monitor your website or any other web-site and monitor every activity during the load of the web-page. You can use this to test your websites and blogs.

To know all the details of a web page loading follow these steps :

1. Download and Install Free Version of HttpWatch
2. Now Open Internet Explorer and Click on the HttpWatch Icon to load the activity recorder

3. This will load a recorder view of HttpWatch at the bottom half of IE screen. Click on the Record Button

4. Now Open the Website you want to monitor or test, and you will see the logs flowing in this recorder as the website loads. After the website is loaded completely, save the logs in a file. It will be saved with a .hwl extension.

5. Double click on the file. It will open it with the log viewer application of HttpWatch.

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