HTTP Request Blocker and Delayer is a devtools extension that allows you to introduce delay or blocking for http requests. It provides a clean UI to configure URL patterns, delay time, and options for selecting delay or blocking. This extension is particularly useful for debugging and testing, helping to detect potential race condition issues and influence response sequence.
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It provides a clean UI to config URL patterns, delay time setting and options of selecting delay or blocking HTTP requests. The delaying-request feature is particularly useful that can buy you time to debug/observe your app's behavior, by indirectly influencing various responses' sequence. This can be helpful in testing, eg. to detect potential race condition issue that might results from particular dependencies' sequence.
Works good enough for "before" delays on Edge.
Simpler and good enough compared to the "Requestly" and other analytics and big corps-centric alternatives.
It works inside DevTools, unlike the other simpler "URL Throttler" extension, so chose depending your needs.
Sadly, URLs are forgotten when DevTools is closed it seems (but it's open source).
All I could do with this plugin was --- view this plugin page, manage permissions for read/write site data, remove it, pin/unpin. I didn't actually see anything that this plugin actually did. I can't say it didn't work, because 'it didnt not work' either.
HTTP Request Blocker and Delayer is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can
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HTTP Request Blocker and Delayer
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Risk likelihood
HTTP Request Blocker and Delayer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.