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Dev tools · February 3, 2020

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DrHTTP – Stop guessing the HTTP payloads that went through your APIs

DrHTTP (https://drhttp.com/) provides a simple web UI showing all http requests & responses (including full payloads) that flowed in your server. Let's say you (backend developer) run a json over rest API in production. A client opens a ticket saying he received wrong data 3 days ago at 10:00 am. You see no exception in your reporting tool (sentry, newrelic, etc.), you don't have business oriented logs for this situation, current data in your DB looks fine, I think you might get value from the http payload of the user. DrHTTP gives it to you. I'm at a point where I have a…

DrHTTP – Stop guessing the HTTP payloads that went through your APIs launched on February 3, 2020 with 10 votes, #825 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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DrHTTP is a web-based tool that captures and displays all HTTP requests and responses flowing through a server, including full payloads. It's designed for backend developers running REST APIs who need to investigate data issues or bugs by examining the exact data exchanged between clients and servers. Rather than relying on exception tracking or incomplete logs, DrHTTP lets developers search historical HTTP traffic to troubleshoot problems reported days after they occurred and share payload snapshots with teammates.

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DrHTTP (https://drhttp.com/) provides a simple web UI showing all http requests & responses (including full payloads) that flowed in your server. Let's say you (backend developer) run a json over rest API in production. A client opens a ticket saying he received wrong data 3 days ago at 10:00 am. You…

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