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Apache TCP Monitor - How To?

Saliya Ekanayake 11:07 PM , , 4 comments
If you are searching for a tool to monitor messages that are exchanged between a client and a server, then Apache TCPMon is one of the best easy-to-use utilities available at zero cost. You can download three different flavors of this utility, i.e. standalone, IntelliJIDEA plug-in, and Eclipse plug-in. To get an in depth knowledge on how to use this nice tool see my blog post at wso2.org.

The following blog posts too give an insight into this tool.

http://charithaka.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-use-tcpmon-inside-eclipse.html
http://www.keith-chapman.org/2008/07/using-tcp-monitor-to-debug-web-service.html

4 comments :

  1. Chathuranga Chandrasekara10:15 AM

    Yes.. I have used it once.. Nice tool..

    And there is another tool, actually it is a plugin for Mozilla Firefox called livehttpheaders. If you just want to catch the packets and you really hate programming this would be the best solution. I have used only the Firefox plugin. There may be some other flavours also :)

    Ref : http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

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  2. Unknown12:45 PM

    And there is one more tool. Membrane Monitor offers an XML beautifier and you can manipulate requests before sending.

    http://www.predic8.com/open-source/soap-monitor/

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  3. Saliya Ekanayake8:18 PM

    @thomas:
    yea, this looks good. Does it have a plug-in for IntelliJIDEA (bit lazy to google :))

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  4. Unknown3:23 AM

    No. There is no intellij or Eclipse plugin yet. Maybe we provide one in the future.

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