Proxy Workbench 1.2

Proxy Workbench 1.2 is an ideal tool which is designed for developers, trainers and security experts that displays its data in real-time.

You can actually see the data flowing between your e-mail client and the e-mail server, web browser and web server or even analyse FTP in both Passive and Active modes. In addition, the pass through protocol handler enables analysis of protocols where the server does not readily change.

The best feature is the animated connection diagram that graphically represents the history of each socket connection and allows you to drill into the finest of detail. This animation can even be exported to HTML and saved to the web!

Major Features:

1. Graphical Proxy Server
2. Data is displayed in real time. Data can be color coded to indicate its direction. The real time data can optionally include comments about its arrival time and source.
3. The connection diagram provides an animated graphical representation of the life of a socket connection so that problems can be readily identified and analyzed.
4. Native ability to analyze HTTP, FTP, SOAP, Web services and 'Pass through' communications.
5. Pass Through mode allows the analysis of protocols like POP3 and SMTP where the destination server does not readily change. This is also used to analyze database and RPC communications.
6. All of the data can be saved to either a raw binary file, log file or a HTML based connection diagram.
7. The 'data purge' settings allow fine tuning for the amount of data Proxy Workbench stores in memory before it is freed.
8. The data can be presented in one of 5 formats: ASCII, Hexadecimal, Octal, Decimal or Binary.
9. You can individually manage the ports that Proxy Workbench monitors and listens on and dynamically allocate a protocol handler to these ports.
10. Socket processing exceptions are presented in a separate error window for quick analysis.
11. Proxy Workbench can be run as a sys-tray application that runs at startup or as a standard desktop application.
12. Proxy Workbench can be configured to 'stay on top' of all other windows to allow for detailed analysis of its data.
13. Easy configuration:
14. Connection failure simulation strategies allow you to simulate: (see screen shot below
    • Slow or asymmetric Internet connections (bandwidth throttling)
    • Servers that are underpowered, overloaded or under attack (connection refusal)
    • Intermittent connections (connection termination)
    • Disconnected network cables (connection dangling)
    • Data floods and droughts
15.  Natively handles HTTPS (secure sockets) and POP3
16.  Real time logging of data. All events are logged to a CSV format ready for advanced analysis with a database or spreadsheet.
17.  Animated system tray icon unobtrusively indicates data flow

•  Natively handles HTTPS (secure sockets) and POP3:
• Animated system tray icon unobtrusively indicates data flow direction.
  

Requirements:

• 16MB RAM