NetTool, a great HTTP request handling tool

After being annoyed of the OS X font bug from http4e I searched for a free http request analysis tool, where you can freely manipulate the request. I needed this as I'm currently developing a RESTful webservice which delivers XML and json to clients. The clients had problems in some browsers to get the ajax requests done. So I wanted to check if the right content type and charset was returned if any Accept headers had beend set on the request.

I stumbled upon NetTool and this worked like a breeze. There are only two caveats:

• The control characters don't match their OS X counterparts, so I have to use CTRL+C instead of COMMAND+C to copy values from the text fields


• The tunnelling from port 80 does only work as sudo due to user access rights (of course that's the right thing to do, but coming from windows originally I stepped into the trap at first)