A common question we hear from our customers is “What is the Blocked time in HttpWatch and why are we seeing some much of it?”
The Blocked time in HttpWatch is shown as a gray block at the start of a request:
We measure this time by looking at the time interval between these two events:
The point […]
Version 5.3 includes printing, print preview, support for IE 8 Beta 1 and several other fixes. The version history contains a detailed list of the changes.
The result column in HttpWatch may sometimes display the value (Aborted) instead of an HTTP status code:
(Aborted) is one of three pseudo status codes that are used in HttpWatch to display information about HTTP requests that did not receive a status code from the server:
(Aborted)
(Cache)
ERROR_*
The last two values are fairly straight forward. The (Cache) result is displayed when content […]
In practice, you only need two settings to optimize caching:
Don’t cache HTML
Cache everything else forever
“Wooah…hang on!”, we hear you say. “Cache all my scripts and images forever?“
Yes, that’s right. You don’t need anything else in between. Caching indefinitely is fine as long as you don’t allow your HTML to be cached.
“But what about if I […]
Version 5.2 is now available for download. It includes fixes, improvements and the following new features:
Support for automatic recording and saving of log files
A new Tools menu with commands for clearing cookies and the cache
New methods on the Plugin automation object that allow cookies and cache entries to be cleared from an automated test script
A more detailed […]
Some customers contacted us recently to ask why they were seeing http://:/ recorded in HttpWatch. This URL produces an ‘Error 0×57′ in IE 6 and ERROR_INTERNET_INVALID_URL on IE 7.
The sites causing these errors had one thing in common. They were either using the jQuery or YUI javascript libraries. It was not immediately obvious where this URL […]
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