Chowrangi

LiveHTTPHeaders was one of my most often used plug ins for Mozilla Firefox 1.5. It allows you to trace each and every HTTP request being made by your browser and includes all the HTTP headers being sent and received. This includes things like redirects and cookies being set. The plug in proved extremely valuable in debugging our Single Sign On environment. This includes a number of web servers with a user being redirected through different servers during the login process.

Recently I switched from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 2.0 and found out that the LiveHTTPHeaders plug in wouldn’t run on Firefox 2.0 Unfortunately the official page still doesn’t have a download that will install on Firefox 2.0. I decided to take a risk and hack the plug in myself to force it to install on Firefox 2.0. It proved to be very simple and it worked! I now have LiveHTTPHeaders running in my Mozilla Firefox 2.0.

If you also want to run LiveHTTPHeaders in Firefox 2.0 you can do one of two things; follow the hard way and make your own hacked plug in, or just download it from my server. Save the file to your local disk and drag-and-drop it from a Windows Explorer to a Firefox window.

If you want to do it the hard way, here are the steps to do it yourself: 1- Go to the LiveHTTPHeaders download page

2- Right click the “download it” link of the latest version and select “Save Link As…”

3- Save the livehttpheaders-0.12.xpi file on your disk

4- Rename livehttpheaders-0.12.xpi to livehttpheaders-0.12.zip

5- Unzip the file

6- Edit install.rdf that is in the unzipped folder

7- Replace <em:maxVersion>1.5+</em:maxVersion> by <em:maxVersion>2.0.*</em:maxVersion>

8- ZIP all files again in livehttpheaders-0.12-firefox2.0.zip

9- Rename livehttpheaders-0.12-firefox2.0.zip to livehttpheaders-0.12-firefox2.0.xpi

10- Drag and drop the .xpi file from a Windows Explorer to a Firefox 2.0 window

11- The LiveHTTPHeaders Add On will be installed

12- After restarting Firefox 2.0 you have a working LiveHTPHeaders plug in!

HTH.

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