HttpWatch includes automation samples in C# and in a previous post we used C# to create simple empty cache and primed cache tests. However, a number of customers have recently asked how they can get started with HttpWatch and VB.Net. To use Visual Basic simply follow these steps:
1. Create a VB.Net Project
In Visual Studio create a new console […]
The recently announced Google Ajax Libraries API caught our attention because it offers some significant performance improvements if you use a popular Javascript library (e.g. JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us, MooTools or dojo) on your site. You can now reference these libraries at Google rather than having to host your own copy. The benefits of this approach are:
The libraries […]
We’ve added a page to our HTTP Gallery that provides an introduction to Ajax and some simple working examples. The new page is available here:
http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/ajax/
BTW, you can view the AJAX requests made by this page using the free Basic Edition of HttpWatch.
There are now eight books on Amazon that mention HttpWatch as a tool to aid HTTP debugging:
Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer)
by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, and Devin Rader
The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws
by Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto
Juniper(r) Networks Secure Access SSL VPN Configuration Guide
by Rob Cameron […]
There’s a post over on the Gmail blog by Wiltse Carpenter, the Tech Lead for Gmail Performance, about how they used HttpWatch and other tools to speed up the login for Gmail.
Here’s what they said about HttpWatch:
“The Httpwatch plug-in for Internet Explorer was one that proved easy to use and provided us with most of the […]
If you’re tuning a web page’s performance there are two types of visitors that you need to be concerned about:
A new visitor to your site who won’t have any of your pages, scripts, CSS or images in their browser cache.
An existing user of your site who will have your cacheable pages, scripts, CSS or images in […]
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