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Wiki MarkupI have an application under test that is not using any web browser as a client. Anyhow our custom made client communicates with application server tier via Apache/Tomcat. I found very difficult to use \[http://www.badboy.com.au/ Badboy\] to see what's going on from the Client tier perspective.

So, I was searching for some tool that captures HTTP communication "from outside" and I found lately a little tool that is just perfect for what I needed. It shows outgoing HTTP requests and incoming HTTP responses and can help you analyze them.

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The Apache Axis Web Services project includes a TCP Monitoring utility which is intended for monitoring SOAP requests, but it works just as well for plain HTTP requests.

• Wiki Markup\[http://ws.apache.org/commons/tcpmon/tcpmontutorial.html TCPMon Tutorial\]unmigrated-wiki-markup\[http://ws.apache.org/commons/tcpmon/download.cgi
• Download TCPMon\]unmigrated-wiki-markup
• \[http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Axis/axis3.html Java Boutique article on TCPMon\] \\ \\
  
  

Other possibilities

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• \[http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ Fiddler\] - requires .NET
• Wiki Markup\[http://www.mentalis.org/soft/projects/proxy/ Mentalis Proxy\] - written in c#
• Wiki Markup\[http://www.wireshark.org/ WireShark\] (previously \[http://www.ethereal.com/ Ethereal\]) - "The world's most popular network protocol analyzer"