In Praise of… “Service Capture”
Just a quick note to clue my visitors in on a fantastic little Firefox addon/cross platform app named Service Capture. From the site…
ServiceCapture runs on your computer(pc or mac) and captures all HTTP traffic sent from your browser or IDE. It is designed to help Rich Internet Application(RIA) developers in the debugging, analysis, and testing of their applications.
It is a time saver and a conundrum killer. It’s a verbose little HTTP sniffer, Flash tracer and bandwidth simulator all in one. It thoroughly rocks. One thing that it certainly shows, is just how many people publish SWF content without either removing or turning off trace statements before pushing files to their sites. 
Besides Flash Trace statements, it shows XML files, AMF requests, system logs and tons of other stuff. It’s well spent. I’m always looking for little utilities like this to help me out, so if you have some you like to use, let me know, I’ll check ‘em out.
