Down and Dirty with Chrome Developer Tools

WebSockets

Chrome developer tools contain a websockets view for analyzing websocket message frames.

  • Green messages represent client to server (upload) messages while white represent server to client (download).
  • The frames do not automatically update. Click on the request within the name column to refresh the frames.
  • Right click to copy the data out of the frames.

Audits

Exercise‎

Inspect the frames sent within the following websocket connection:

Message: