I’ve just stumbled on a tweet mentioning htty while I was researching some stateless web architecture and found this:
A blog entry Introducing ‘htty’, the HTTP TTY that is about a very cool console tool to “browse” the web. It allows you to connect to any webserver and take a look at what is really happening with your web connections.
It is perfect to analyze the response of your own websites or learn more about others.
I often have problems analyzing several forwards in tracking links because everyone uses his own tracking and AdServer, resulting for me to use telnet to do all the http requests by myself. This is the tool I was missing all the time :-)
Just follow the white rabbit err link ( http://blog.nilsjonsson.com/post/1076166313/introducing-htty-the-http-tty ) to learn more about this new “must have” for web developers ;-)
favo$ gem install htty
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