Reading Http Header Info

I needed to read the headers exchanged between web request made through a browser. Two good tools for this in Internet Explorer are ieHttpHeaders and HttpWatch. ieHttpHeaders is free. HttpWatch has a free version but it doesn't give you much info.

In Firefox you can try LiveHttpHeaders which, once installed can be toggled using ALT + L

Firefox Smart Keyword

Say you search on a lot of different things - corporate phonebook, imdb, etc... wouldn't it be handy to have convenient aliases to all these searches? You bet it would be.

• Go to the page that has the search box on it, right click on the box and choose "Add a Keyword for this Search"


• In the "Add Bookmark" dialog that appears enter a name and a short "keyword" and save the Bookmark

Now you can type "kw search string" in the URL, e.g. "pb Janet Robinson" for a quick phonebook lookup. I can't live without my keywords. Oh, and it handles POST forms too, unlike most other browsers!

Moving Firefox Toolbars

To get more room for web page content it is worth rearrange your toolbars.

• Go to View->Toolbars->Customize Toolbars


• Click in the blank space between the "Help" menu item and the throbber on the right side of the menu bar and drag the empty space into the toolbar palette. The throbber will move over to the left, by the Help Menu Item


• Now drag the Bookmarks Toolbar items up off the Bookmarks Toolbar in between the Help Menu item and the Throbber
• Click "Done" on the Customize Toolbar window


• Now go to View->Toolbars->Bookmarks Toolbar to turn off the empty Bookmarks Toolbar.