Live HTTP Headers (Chrome)

What is Live HTTP Headers (Chrome)?

Live HTTP Headers is a tool that logs all HTTP traffic between Google Chrome and the Internet. It provides developers and users with a comprehensive view of the network communication between their browser and web servers. The extension captures and displays the headers sent in both the request and response, offering valuable insights into the technologies and configurations used by the web applications being accessed

Highlights

• Logs all HTTP/HTTPS traffic from the user's browser, including headers, HTTP verbs, and other metadata
• Helps developers analyze REST API headers and determine the underlying technologies (e.g., Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, PHP, JBoss)
• Provides information about caching, encoding, and other server-side configurations through the captured headers
• Allows users to choose which types of resources to capture, providing flexibility in the data collected