Interceptor Help

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  IMPORTANT

With it's ability to change referer and user agent tags, Interceptor can really confuse some websites, especially if you turn off cookies. Therefore we recommend that you don't use it on secure sites and especially on Credit Card sites. For instance, hotmail will not work with cookies denied. Some sites tell you that you must have cookies on, others just plain don't work! Interceptor is primarily a diagnostic tool. It is good practise to back up anything important before performing diagnostics on a site where the browser can alter the contents. Your emails on 'hotmail' fall into this category.

Also, we insist that you get the free version of Interceptor working before paying to register, so that you can verify that it works on your system, and your money is not wasted on a product you don't need.

Setting up Interceptor is easy if you use the same computer for everything.
Before you try to use Interceptor, first make sure your Internet connection is working and that you can browse the Internet normally.

Then, just set up your web browser to use a proxy server called localhost, on port 81. localhost is a special network name that all windows PCs have once tcp/ip is running. It will always resolve to the correct ip address for connecting to severs on the same machine.

Below are 2 screen shots from netscape 7.0. Be sure to set SOCKS to v4.

 

 

NOTE you must NOT enable Keep-Alive when using Interceptor v1.1

 

Here is the same thing in Internet Explorer 6.0

The first shot is for use with a dial-up connection.

 

This is the place to set up a proxy for a LAN connection.

Important, be sure to UN-CHECK: Use HTTP 1.1 through Proxy connections,

As this is the only way to disable Keep-Alive in I.E6.0

Use the Default settings in Interceptor, and press the start button. You should see status: Active. If you start browsing now, you should see all the requests and responses whiz by on the input and out put windows:

 

Here is a screen shot showing the default settings for reference.

Note: Interceptor will not accept requests until you press the start button.

Version 1.2G enhancements:

• Improved https handling
• New request headline tracking option, that puts the originating request above each response. This is helpful because the responses come back in network order, and often get interspliced with each other. With the 'Show request line in responses' option checked, you can easily see which slice is which.
• Fixed a few display bugs.

 

Version 1.2J enhancements:

• Added a warning message to track URIs that return to much data!
  When certain old UNIX based web servers return an error 4xx not found, they sometimes send a load of junk after the header. If you have Tracking switched on, Interceptor tries to warn you when the data is just junk. It is usually just old data from your previous pages, and your browser would ignore it because, after seeing a 4xx error, it would not want to take any notice of any further data after the double <CRLF>.

More help on how to capture http header data with Interceptor