HTTP Toolkit 1.24.4 released

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HTTP Toolkit 1.24.4 has been released, enhancing its capabilities for automatically intercepting HTTP and HTTPS traffic from a wide range of clients, including popular web browsers like Chrome and Firefox, command-line interface (CLI) tools, and back-end programming languages such as Node.js, Python, and Ruby. This tool functions as an HTTP(S) proxy, making it compatible with standard HTTP requests across various programming languages and tools, even those lacking built-in integration.

One of the standout features of HTTP Toolkit is its ability to facilitate traffic analysis by highlighting essential details such as content type, status, and source. Users can efficiently search through traffic based on URL, status, or headers to identify relevant messages. The toolkit provides a comprehensive examination of each request or response, featuring inline explanations and documentation sourced from MDN (Mozilla Developer Network). Furthermore, it offers advanced message body examination with highlighting and autoformatting for various formats like JSON, HTML, JavaScript, and hex, utilizing the powerful Monaco editor from Visual Studio Code.

In addition to its analytical features, HTTP Toolkit allows users to interact with live HTTP traffic by pausing and editing requests. Users can modify target URLs, methods, headers, and bodies as requests appear. The toolkit also enables manual responses to incoming requests or the option to pass them upstream while editing the real response being returned. Users can step through requests one at a time or simulate endpoints and errors for comprehensive testing.

Key features of HTTP Toolkit include:
- Cross-platform compatibility (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- Comprehensive interception integrations
- Essential features for HTTP debugging
- Manual HTTP mocking and rewriting capabilities

The release also coincides with troubleshooting tools for Windows, such as fixing unidentified network issues, flushing the DNS cache, resetting TCP/IP settings, and using the ping command.

Overall, HTTP Toolkit 1.24.4 empowers developers and testers with advanced tools for monitoring, analyzing, and manipulating HTTP traffic, significantly enhancing their debugging and development processes

HTTP Toolkit 1.24.4 released

HTTP Toolkit offers automatic interception of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from most clients, including web browsers like Chrome and Firefox, almost all CLI tools, and back-end languages (Node.js, Python, Ruby, and more).

HTTP Toolkit 1.24.4 released @ MajorGeeks