Roadmap

The HAR format isn't really efficient and is missing really important stuff while the .chls format isn't efficient either and the strucure being undocumented makes it a more experimental format. There is a lot of room for improvement in size and detail for HTTP archives.

Allows you to drag sessions out of its current window, creating a new window with only that session and also docking sessions adding the session to other already existing windows.

Create bookmarks to requests and other locations for faster and smoother navigation.

Launch browsers with pre-configured proxy settings and record traffic from these isolated instances. powhttp automatically detects which compatible browsers you have installed so you can just select one and start recording.

Allows you to write two separate queries. Before this change it was only possible to search and filter using the same query. Now you can write one query to filter and a different one to search in the filtered results.

Enables writing custom logic in JavaScript to extend powhttp's functionality in a flexible and easy way.

Shows the name, PID and icon of the app sending the request.

Downloads new updates in the background and installs them when closing or restarting the app.

Saves sessions locally when closing the app and restores them upon reopening.

Makes it possible to open .har and .chls files from the file explorer and to quickly double-clicking the file if powhttp is set as the default application for these file types.

Allows you to add custom themes by placing them in a dedicated themes directory which is loaded at startup. Comes with documentation for how to structure theme files and where to place them for each operating system powhttp supports.

Makes it possible to drag and drop sections of the app where you want and adds tabs so you can put multiple sections in the same area if you want to save screen space.

View requests organized by path and domain as a tree structure so you can search for requests within a specific domain and path more easily.

Allows you to view requests and responses formatted as a HTTP/1.1 message.

Gives you the ability to view websocket messages exchanged between the client and the server.

Allows you to view HTTP/2 frames sent between both parties helping you debug streams more easily.

Allows you to view TLS records sent between both parties (e.g. client and server hello) and see what parameters were used to establish the secure connection.

Generates and copies to clipboard code which sends the request with all its headers and content like it was received for language and shell clients like cURL, Go, NodeJS, Python and more.

Allows you to view request and response bodies hex and ascii encoded side-by-side.

Adding a new "Image" section for response bodies which displays the returned data as jpeg, png, gif, webp, svg or avif depending on the media type set in the response headers.

Support for 103 Early Hints responses where essentially two responses are getting sent from the server side, one returning early hints and one with the actual response for the request.

Allowing you to import and inspect requests from .chls files.

Allows you to switch between different themes and choose which fonts are used to display text in the app.

Route traffic to an external proxy server specified in the session settings. Support also includes username password authentication.

Intercept TLS traffic while preserving original algorithms and parameters, modifying only what's necessary for traffic decryption. This requires support for both cutting-edge technologies (including post-quantum cryptography) and legacy algorithms to ensure full coverage for whatever scenario you are dealing with.