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Features & Releases History

Version Main Features Java RunTime Required

2012 / 09 -v2.28

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  • TcpCatcher adds a "Page" column letting you which page generated the HTTP request
  • bug fix decrypting HTTPS comununication
1.6 (update 10)

2011 / 11 -v2.27

 

  • TcpCatcher display the full load time of a web page in the information Panel. This is a very useful feature when building a web site in order to check that your page is not to heavy (which would provoque a pagerank penalty). Page load time is measured as the elapsed time between the begining of the first HTTP request and the end of the last HTTP response.

2011 / 05 -v2.26

 

  • New settings can be saved and restored

2011 / 04 -v2.25

 

  • Now TcpCatcher Session can also be exported as plain text (from Settings panel)

2011 / 02 -v2.24

 

  • New option to let you monitor none HTTP secured communication like IMAPS, LDAPS, .. (see workshop 24)

2011 / 01 -v2.23

 

  • New option to let you choose certificate name when monitoring SSL using TcpCatcher as a transparent proxy (see workshop 12)
  • Several optimisations in order to get an SSL monitoring much faster

2011 / 01 -v2.22

 

  • New option to let you disable Nagle algorithm at TCP/IP level in order to improve latency (TCP_NODELAY option)
  • New option in the front information panel to let you swap between Speed rates and total amount of bytes uploaded or downloaded during the session
  • bug fix : extra carriage return removed on response to CONNECT when monitoring SSL

2010 / 12 -v2.21

 

  • Simulate extra network latency (from the Setttings Panel)
  • display bug fix on Mac OS X on that Panel

2010 / 12 -v2.20

 

  • Simulate slow network and TCP packet losses (from the Setttings Panel)

2010 / 09 -v2.19

 

  • Captured traffic session can now be exported into a file and imported back later (from the Settings Panel)

2010 / 08 -v2.18

 

  • Intercepted XML payloads (with Catch Mode ON) can now be edited within the XML Tree View

2010 / 08 -v2.17

 

  • Next and Previous packet buttons for browsing through captured packets
  • Improved Hook Builder (on the fly automatic packet modifications)
  • bug fix when reloading java hooks (shutdown() was not called before reload)
  • display bug fix on Mac OS X

2010 / 07 -v2.16

 

  • Improved internal sofware architecture. Best performances and lower memory footprint.
  • display bug fix on Mac OS X

2010 / 06 - v2.15

2010 / 05 - v2.14

 

2010 / 05 - v2.13

 

2010 / 05 - v2.12

 

  • Ping time (right click on a row and choose 'Ping remote host')
  • bug fix parsing AMF streams on Mac OS X

2010 / 02 - v2.11

 

  • Monitor download and upload speed (within the Information panel)

2010 / 02 - v2.10

  • Pinpoint differences between two packets (see workshop 19)
  • bug fix using TcpCatcher behind a corporate web proxy

2010 / 02 - v2.9

  • JSON object parsing
  • several bug fixes

2010 / 02 - v2.8

2010 / 01 - v2.7

  • For Windows users, IE enable/disable live capture button
  • duration field added to the TcpCatcherPacket callback class

2010 / 01 - v2.6

  • SOCKS v5 implementation (connect only)

2010 / 01 - v2.5

  • Drag and drop any system file into TcpCatcher
  • Build custom HTTP requests (see workshop 8)

2009 / 12 - v2.4

2009 / 11 - v2.3

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2009 / 09 - v2.2

2009 / 09 - v2.1

 

  • For Windows users, Internet Explorer can be automatically configured to use TcpCatcher as a proxy. When TcpCatcher is closed, initial browser settings are restored.

2009 / 09 - v2.0


  • Reassembles http packets (full support for http1.1 chunked packets)
  • Allows searching of a content having been zipped
  • Pretty prints html, javascript, css contents
  • Renders jpg, gif, png images content
  • Displays http header definition
  • Pretty prints XML payloads and XML treeviews (see workshop 6)
  • Correlates http requests and response (right click, open request and response)
  • Customizable display (choose columns you want to see)
  • Asynchronous user hook (typically for logging packets without any effect on packet delivery) (see workshop 3)
  • Enhances packet modification on the fly capabilities (automatically recomputes Content-Length) (see workshop 2)
  • New "Nimbus" look and feel (comes with JRE 6 update 10)
  • Save packet to file

2009 / 06 - v1.2

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  • Built in search engine (find a packet containing key words)
  • Table filtering
  • Custom user hook (perform any specific user operation on packets)
  • Display http request-response duration (millisec)
  • Command line mode and java api

1.6
2008 / 10 - HttpCatcher is renamed to TcpCatcher v1.0

  • Http proxy and tcp proxy (can be used to proxy any tcp based protocol)
  • Packets modification on the fly manually (catch mode = debug mode)
  • Built in Hexa decimal editor
  • Support for HTTPS CONNECT method

1.5
2004 october - HttpCatcher
  • Basic http monitor
1.4

Version X.Y.Z :

X : is the major release version ; Y : minor release version (a Y increment informs of a new feature) ; Z : patch version (a Z increment informs of a bug fix)