breadcrumbs: SPDY > page_name: spdy-tools-and-debugging title: SPDY Tools and Debugging

With a new protocol, tools and debugging aids are always in short supply. If you have time to help build additional tools, please do so and feel free to post them here!

Debugging tools:

  • Chrome
    • about:net-internals This URL is a magic URL in Chrome which provides data about the chrome network stack. It has been fully updated to enumerate SPDY frames and status.
      • Events Tab: This tab shows network events. Look for SPDY_SESSSION events and you can see every SPDY frame sent or received by Chrome.
      • SPDY Tab (Chrome 9+): This tab shows the current state of existing, active SPDY sessions
    • command line flags Chrome has lots of command line flags to assist with altering SPDY behavior:
      • --use-spdy=ssl Forces Chrome to always use SPDY, even if not negotiated over SSL
      • --use-spdy=no-ssl Forces Chrome to always use SPDY, but without SSL
      • --host-resolver-rules=“MAP * myspdyserver:8000” If you‘ve got a server running SPDY, and you want content to be fetched from it, even if it doesn’t match the URL you are requesting (e.g. you've cached a site and want to play it back to the browser without hitting the real-world site), this rule with alter host resolution for a set of URLs to be your simulated server.
    • Chrome Inspector
      • The existing chrome tools for testing HTTP also work with SPDY.
  • Speed Tracer Speed Tracer is an extension for profiling browser internal events, network events and CPU usage. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ognampngfcbddbfemdapefohjiobgbdl
  • Chromium page benchmarker The page benchmarker can test HTTP and SPDY urls through chrome. https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chrome-benchmarking-extension
  • Flip-in-mem-edsm-server The flip server is a fully implemented SPDY server or SPDY-to-HTTP gateway. Full source is available in the chromium tree at net/tools/flip_server. You can read more about it here: http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/running_flipinmemserver
  • Wireshark SPDY extension The wireshark extension needs some love. You'll find it checked into the chromium source tree under net/tools.