Firebug: The Firefox add-on everybody else says I can't live without

After proclaiming very publicly that I loved HttpFox and everyone Related Posts should have it there were many comments regarding Firebug, including some that came via e-mail. I've used Firebug in the past, but hadn't really looked at it in comparison to HttpFox and thought that with so many people saying it was "all that and more" with regards to HttpFox, I should...

HttpFox: The Firefox add-on you can't live without

Whether you're a network architect, a web developer, or a web administrator there's one tool that's a must have in your troubleshooting toolbox: a protocol analyzer. Like many network focused folks, I traditionally rely upon ethereal (now Wireshark) for protocol analysis. It decodes just about every protocol up and down the stack, and it can import/export to a variety of formats. But being connected to the corporate LAN via an SSL VPN, wireshark is often constrained by it's own architecture. Because it inserts itself into the network stack to gather data, it can't decrypt the SSL encrypted packets, which makes...