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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.

• TCPMon Tutorial
• Download TCPMon
• Java Boutique article on TCPMon
  
  

Other possibilities

• Charles - easy to use
• Fiddler - requires .NET
• Mentalis Proxy - written in c#
• WireShark (previously Ethereal) - "The world's most popular network protocol analyzer"

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  \[http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html#tcpmon TCPMon Guide on Apache Axis Website\]

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  \[http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/ws-axis/java/src/org/apache/axis/utils/ CVS directory containing tcpmon source\]

• Wiki Markup\[http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Axis/axis3.html Java Boutique article on TCPMon\]