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Easy Network Debugging with Requestly Wireshark Alternative
Wireshark is the gold standard for deep packet forensics, but for HTTP and API debugging the packet view is the wrong altitude. Requestly gives web and API developers interception, modification, and mocking without capture setup.
Great at packets. Not built for HTTP and API debugging.
Wireshark is excellent for deep packet analysis and network troubleshooting. But modifying HTTP traffic, managing CORS, and mocking APIs sit outside what a packet analyzer does, and getting set up means system-proxy settings and an SSL certificate.
Deep packet analysis for the network layer
- Deep packet analysis
- Troubleshooting network issues
- Lightweight
The gaps for HTTP and API work
- No HTTP request, header, or response modification
- No CORS header management
- No API mock endpoints or mock server
- Heavy setup: system-level proxy and an SSL certificate
Built for HTTP and API debugging, not packets
Interception, request and response modification, API mocking, and team collaboration, all from a browser extension.
Debug in the browser, no context switching
Requestly runs as a browser extension on native Chrome APIs, so it stays fast and lightweight, and it works across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and all Chromium-based browsers, with no separate application to switch into.
- Uses native Chrome APIs for speed
- Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Chromium browsers
- No separate app to switch into
Zero setup to get started
Install the extension and you are debugging in a few clicks, with no desktop application to install, no system-level proxy settings to manage, and no SSL certificate to set up.
- Running in a few clicks
- No system-level proxy configuration
- No SSL certificate to install
Modify, mock, and redirect HTTP traffic
Modify HTTP/S requests, headers, responses, and URLs, manage CORS headers, create API mock endpoints, inject scripts, and automate testing with rule-based redirects, the HTTP-level editing Wireshark lacks.
- Modify requests, headers, responses, and URLs
- Create API mock endpoints
- Inject scripts and apply page-level filters
- Rule-based redirects and GraphQL support
Built-in team collaboration
Create shared workspaces and synchronize rules across your team so everyone has instant access to established rules, eliminating duplicate work.
- Shared team workspaces
- Rules synced across teammates
- No duplicate work
Requestly vs Wireshark, feature by feature
| Feature | Requestly | Wireshark |
|---|---|---|
| Lightweight | Yes | Yes |
| Modify HTTP headers | Yes | No |
| Modify API response | Yes | No |
| Modify URL | Yes | No |
| GraphQL support | Yes | No |
| Inject Scripts | Yes | No |
| Page level filters | Yes | No |
| Collaboration | Yes | No |
| Mock server | Yes | No |
| API client | Yes | No |
| Enterprise-ready | Yes | No |
| Support | Yes | Yes |
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