WebScarab for Eclipse is an extensible framework for analyzing applications that communicate using the HTTP protocol. It includes an HTTP monitor and an HTTP proxy for recording all messages between your machine and remote servers.
It is a port to Eclipse of the WebScarab application from OWASP.
It consists of the following components:
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The first milestone of WebScarab for Eclipse is available. See the download page for instructions on how to download the release.
Be sure to check out the New and Noteworthy page.
In its simplest form, WebScarab records the conversations (requests and responses) that it observes, and allows the operator to review them in various ways.
WebScarab is designed to be a tool for anyone who needs to expose the workings of an HTTP(S) based application, whether to allow the developer to debug otherwise difficult problems, or to allow a security specialist to identify vulnerabilities in the way that the application has been designed or implemented.