Monthly Archives: October 2007

Improved International Character Support in HttpWatch 5.1.21

We’ve extended the support for non-western languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean so that any character can be used to filter requests or search for text:

The new version can be downloaded from our web site.

Using Ctrl+F5 in IE 7

Typing Ctrl+F5 in Internet Explorer is a handy way to force the reload of a page and all its component parts (e.g. images, css , javascript etc). It has the same effect as visiting a page with an empty browser cache.
If you use HttpWatch with Ctrl+F5 in IE 6, you can see that every request […]

60% of Web Users Can’t be Wrong – Don’t Break the Back Button!

Usability studies have shown that 60% of users rely on the back button as their primary means of navigating around the web (source: Usability Interface). In fact, several studies have shown that the back button is second only to clicking on links as the most used feature on the web (source: Web Usability research). So […]

HttpWatch Version 5.1 Released

Welcome to the HttpWatch blog! To coincide with the release of version 5.1, we’ve started a blog to discuss issues related to the HTTP protocol, Internet Explorer and HttpWatch.
You can find out more about version 5.1 by going to What’s New in Version 5.x or by downloading the new version.