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Features & Releases History

Version Main Features Java RunTime Required

2011 / 11 -v2.27

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  • 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.
1.6 (update 10)

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)