Tag Archives: HttpWatch

Automating HttpWatch with PowerShell

April 12, 2013

Some customers have asked recently about whether HttpWatch can be automated with PowerShell. This is possible but we don’t have any samples or supporting documentation. If you’re interest in driving HttpWatch with PowerShell please take a look at this excellent post on F5 DevCentral by Joe Pruitt: Project Acceleration: Programmatic Performance Testing with HTTPWatch  

How many Firefox Versions Should HttpWatch Support?

December 6, 2012

The Problem Every six weeks a new version of Firefox is released by Mozilla. Unfortunately, binary extensions like HttpWatch need to be recompiled and ship a new DLL for each new release. Currently, HttpWatch supports the following versions of Firefox: 2, 3, 3.5, 3.6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 There’s 18 different version of Firefox that HttpWatch needs to support and be tested against. Also. every six weeks the HttpWatch installer increases in size, takes longer to install and takes up more space on the target machine. We really need to start … Continue reading →

HttpWatch 8.5 Supports Firefox 15 and SPDY Version 3

September 3, 2012

HttpWatch has been updated to support Firefox 15 and add some new features: Supports SPDY Version 3 New SPDY Version column Improved handling of images with transparency High DPI Awareness for Windows 7 SPDY Version 3 is an updated version of the SPDY protocol and includes some performance related changes such as improved header compression. These changes have been included in Firefox 15 but are not enabled by default. To try out SPDY version 3 you need to enable the network.http.spdy.enabled.v3 setting in about:config: There’s also a new SPDY Version column that you can add in HttpWatch 8.5 to show which version … Continue reading →