Tool to monitor HTTP TCP etc Web Service traffic

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What s the best tool that you use to monitor Web Service  SOAP  WCF  etc  traffic that s coming and going on the wire  I have seen some tools that made with Java but they seem to be a little crappy  What I want is a tool that sits in the middle as a proxy and does port redirection  which should have configurable listen redirect ports   Are there any tools work on Windows to do this

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I tried Fiddler with its reverse proxy ability which is mentioned by @marxidad and it seems to be working fine, since Fiddler is a familiar UI for me and has the ability to show request/responses in various formats (i.e. Raw, XML, Hex), I accept it as an answer to this question. One thing though. I use WCF and I got the following exception with reverse proxy thing:

The message with To 'http://localhost:8000/path/to/service' cannot be processed at the receiver, due to an AddressFilter mismatch at the EndpointDispatcher. Check that the sender and receiver's EndpointAddresses agree

I have figured out (thanks Google, erm.. I mean Live Search :p) that this is because my endpoint addresses on server and client differs by port number. If you get the same exception consult to the following MSDN forum message:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2302537&SiteID=1

which recommends to use clientVia Endpoint Behavior explained in following MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163412.aspx

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I use LogParser to generate graphs and look for elements in IIS logs

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I find WebScarab very powerful

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JMeter s built-in proxy may be used to record all HTTP request response information   Firefox  Live HTTP headers  plugin may be used to see what is happening on the browser side when sending receiving request   Firefox  Tamper data  plugin may be useful when you need to intercept and modify request

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For Windows HTTP  you can t beat Fiddler  You can use it as a reverse proxy for port-forwarding on a web server  It doesn t necessarily need IE  either  It can use other clients

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Wireshark  or Tshark  is probably the defacto standard traffic inspection tool  It is unobtrusive and works without fiddling with port redirecting and proxying  It is very generic  though  as does not  AFAIK  provide any tooling specifically to monitor web service traffic - it s all tcp ip and http   You have probably already looked at tcpmon but I don t know of any other tool that does the sit-in-between thing

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I ve been using Charles for the last couple of years  Very pleased with it

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You might find Microsoft Network Monitor helpful if you re on Windows

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I second Wireshark  It is very powerful and versatile  And since this tool will work not only on Windows but also on Linux or Mac OSX  investing your time to learn it  quite easy actually  makes sense  Whatever the platform or the language you use  it makes sense   Regards   Richard Just Programmer http   sili co nz blog

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I second Wireshark  It is very powerful and versatile  And since this tool will work not only on Windows but also on Linux or Mac OSX  investing your time to learn it  quite easy actually  makes sense  Whatever the platform or the language you use  it makes sense   Regards   Richard Just Programmer http   sili co nz blog

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Wireshark does not do port redirection  but sniffs and interprets a lot of protocols

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Check out Paros Proxy

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