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BrowserUp Proxy Release 1.1

We recently released version 1.1 of the BrowserUp Proxy. BrowserUp Proxy is a free utility to watch, test, and manipulate web application network traffic and performance.

The BrowserUp proxy is based on a fork of the BrowserMob Proxy, an open source project which hasn’t had a release in a few years. It uses the same API as BrowserMob Proxy’s REST API. It should work as a drop in replacement if you’re using the older BrowserMob Client Libraries  We’re excited to build, add to it, and make it our own.

Our new point release features:

ZIP distribution with launch scripts, SSL certificates and keys

Dependency updates

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Post ideas

– Every error code and meaning during load/performance testing

– A master table with all error code and meanings summary linking to the other pages

– All major browsermob proxy errors

– Examples of each thing you could do with browserup proxy

– Performance Assertions

– Network Assertions

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Brotli Support in the BrowserUp/BrowserMob Proxy

We are happy to announce Brotli support in the BrowserUp Proxy. The BrowserUp proxy is our fork of the BrowserMob proxy.

Brotli is an open source compression scheme by Google that offers superior compression capabilities over GZIP, the most popular alternative.  At present, if you load either Google or Facebook, you’ll get web pages sent to you with Brotli compression.  Previously, the proxy would ignore the content of text in Brotli (br) encoded pages.

    Many sites are moving or have already moved to Brotli, and for good reason. Take a look at how much Brotli compression will reduce the size of your content. If you’re interested in better web performance, Brotli compression is something you should look at.

Along with Brotli support, we added in a couple other community PR’s, like a fix for Basic Auth credentials leaks in the proxy, and support for JSON content types with versions in the name into the new version. Give it a try!

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New Post has been published on http://browserup.com/blog/announcement-an-actively-maintained-fork-of-the-browsermob-proxy/

Announcement: An actively maintained fork of the BrowserMob Proxy!

We are pleased to announce our new fork of the BrowserMob Proxy, renamed the BrowserUp Proxy. The BrowserMob Proxy played a vital role in the Selenium testing ecosystem by allowing access to network request data, but it has unfortunately not been updated for a couple years.

The commercial load testing and monitoring company which maintained the project, BrowserMob, was acquired by a company named Neustar, and while the proxy had some great community support for a while, the main fork hasn’t been updated since 2016. As an example of how this poses a problem, HTTP2 support has been needed sorely and is still missing from the proxy. Additionally, it would not compile against Java 11.

We have no relationship to BrowserMob or their acquirer. We do have a love of real browser testing and browsers, though. Since we are planning to put a lot of effort into the proxy, we decided to brand this fork under our own name, BrowserUp.

What are our plans for the BrowserUp Proxy? HTTP2 support, which you can see now. Bug fixes. Websocket support.  Modern dependency updates. Apache 2.0 license like it has always had. And… a lot of crazy new features that we will announce soon! Hint: Some are already done and can be found on the repo.