Compare Chrome extensions: Live HTTP Headers vs Request Maker

Stats Live HTTP Headers Live HTTP Headers Request Maker Request Maker
User count 23,483+ 30,000+
Average rating 5.00 3.49
Rating count 6 184
Last updated 2021-08-21 2017-03-08
Size 92.04K 141.31K
Version 1.7 0.1.2.16
Short description
Monitor all HTTP/HTTPs traffic from your browser. Log, edit and send HTTP requests
Full summary

Live HTTP Headers logs all HTTP traffic between your Chrome browser and the Internet.

This extension can be helpful if you want to:

  • Debug web application
  • Follow redirect path
  • See cookies sent by remote site
  • See which web server the remote site is using
  • See the headers sent to the server
  • See which headers the server returns
  • See the HTTP verbs used.
  • See Response Codes

You can from the settings dialog choose what type of resource you want to capture.

This extension shows you all the headers as they were sent to the server and also the response back. It is not making a second request as some other extensions. All HTTP traffic i captured live.

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Version 0.1.2.16 adds proper browser action support since Chrome dropped the page action feature. Sorry for the delay, UI should now be easier to access!


Request Maker is a tool for penetration testing. With it you can easily capture requests made by web pages, tamper with the URL, headers and POST data and, of course, make new requests. Request Maker only captures requests sent via HTML forms and XMLHttpRequests; it doesn't fill the log with useless information about images and style sheets. The logs are tab-specific, displayed in the page action popup, and the requests are bookmarkable. After sending a request you can just click on the bookmark button like you would on any other page.

For quick access, bookmark this URL: chrome-extension://kajfghlhfkcocafkcjlajldicbikpgnp/rm.html


Known issues:

  • Due to built-in limitations in XHR, not all headers can be modified. See http://goo.gl/Woeao.
  • XHR transparently follows redirects (as per http://goo.gl/mEwGh) without providing a way to retrieve the final URL. This sometimes causes incorrect rendering in the Document tab.

Questions? Problems? Suggestions? Bugs?

  • You'll find my email address in the options page of the extension.