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Viewing Headers Received

Can anyone recommend a browser or utility (client or server) that will show what headers were sent by the web server during a page request?

I’ve got a bug report in the Use Tasks forums that looks like a M$ bug. The workaround assumes that certain headers are being sent and I’d like to try to verify that these are indeed being sent before I try to figure out how not to send them.

UPDATE: Solution in comments.

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Posted November 3rd, 2004 @ 8:21 AM

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Chris K adds this Comment:

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

November 3rd, 2004 at 8:34 am
Alex adds this Comment:

That worked! If you’re installing LiveHTTPHeaders on Mac OS X and click all the defaults during the install, you’ll need to take the following steps to actually make it work:

1. Show Package Contents on Mozilla.app.
2. Copy the ~/Library/Mozilla/…/profile/Components/nsHeaderInfo.js file into the Mozilla.app/MacOS/components/ directory.
3. Delete the files it tells you to delete on the Headers tab in the Info window.
4. Restart Mozilla, it should work now.

November 3rd, 2004 at 8:54 am
Brett (a different one) adds this Comment:

There’s also the indespensible Web Developer plugin for Firefox.

http://www.chrispede[...]ebdeveloper/

November 3rd, 2004 at 10:12 am
Alex adds this Comment:

Shoot, I already had that installed too - I just didn’t find the feature on first look.

November 3rd, 2004 at 10:17 am
Chris Pederick adds this Comment:

Yeah, my Web Developer extension has a basic ‘View Response Headers’ feature, but the LiveHTTPHeaders extension is far more robust and feature rich.

November 3rd, 2004 at 11:21 am
alexking.org: Blog adds this Trackback:

Workaround for IE/SSL Problem
If you’re having trouble downloading files in IE over SSL, the fix is to turn off cache headers. To do this in Apache:

<Files filename.php>
Header unset Pragma
Header unset Cache-Control
</Files>

November 3rd, 2004 at 12:08 pm

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