Windows Secrets Newsletter 9-Jul-2015 Tools for foiling malicious links and files: Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer reveals browser activity.

A special "thank you" from Yves Latour, co-founder of the search engine for brochures & catalogs:

Who-sells-it.com

10-Jul-2008 Who-sells-it.com is a search engine for brochures and catalogs. Everyone owning some sort of product catalog using the popular PDF format can have it added for free. There are no catchy terms attached, but the catalog file should be online already and allow an easy spidering and fetching. The robots.txt file is supported. Sometimes our catalog spider cannot fetch a catalog as supposed or we have a problem with one of our own web documents. Usually, the first move is getting over to Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer, slapping the URL into the input box to check the document header. In most cases this gives us the information we need to know to be able to understand the problem. We appreciate the existence of such free tools. Thank you, Rex, for saving us time!

From Fred Langa's "LangaList" Newsletter 17-Feb-2000 LangaList reader Rex Swain is a consultant and needed a way to see easily what was going on behind the scenes of various web sites when he clicked in. So, he wrote an "HTTP Viewer" that anyone can use (for free!). It intercepts and displays *everything* that transpires between a browser and any given web page, showing you stuff your browser normally hides. For example, when you connect to Amazon.Com, you'll normally see your browser churn for a few seconds (showing a blank page) and then the Amazon home page comes up. But Rex's tool lets you see that you're actually viewing three pages in rapid succession: An initial page quickly redirects you to a second page that sets a cookie; and then that page dumps you to a third page where another cookie is set. Your browser only shows you the third page, but Rex's spy tool lets you see everything -- and I mean everything -- that's going on, including the cookie contents and the URLs of the hidden pages.