2.16.2011

Ad Ops Tools

Charles
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
Link: http://www.charlesproxy.com/download/

Fiddler2
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler includes a powerful event-based scripting subsystem, and can be extended using any .NET language.
Website:
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

Filezilla
FileZilla the
free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software.
Website:
http://filezilla-project.org/
Web Developer Tools – FireFox Add-on
View a web sites’ generated source and ifame source. This is very useful for QA’ing tags and creative delivery.
Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60/

FireBug – FireFox Add-on
View page activity to check URL calls. This is very useful when checking tags and pixel calls in creative and universal tags.
Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843/

FireFTP – FireFox Add-on
File Transfer Protocol for logging into servers
Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684/
FireShot – FireFox Add-on
FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages. This plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.
Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648/

JSView – FireFox Add-on
JSView offers the ability to view the source code of external files. If the website you are viewing contains any external js/css files, an icon will appear that says “SS”, “JS”, or both. Each individual file can then be viewed by clicking on the filename. The file will be opened in a new window. You can also choose to open all external files by clicking on “View All”.
Link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2076/
 
Click & Clean – FireFox Add-on
Removes HTML cookies, Local Shared Objects (LSO) aka Flash cookies, browsing & download history, form & search history, cache, active logins and site preferences
Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3100/

Better Privacy – FireFox Add-on
Removes Local Shared Objects (LSO) aka Flash cookies. Removal can be set to close of web browser
Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623/

TryItEditor - Its an site used to check the Iframe and JS tags for banners.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic