Socket Workbench Features

The main features of Socket Workbench include:

• Analyze socket communications as a socket client or a socket server

• Intercept socket communications using the "Pass Through Mode" ^*

• Includes a customable library of common TCP/IP based protocols including SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SOAP and web services.

• Allows for "stress testing" of socket client and servers

• Data being sent through the socket can be "linked" to a file. When the contents of the file changes, the data is automatically re-read and transmitted.

• Data can be scheduled to be sent at regular intervals.

• Data sent in a previous session can be reselected at a press of a button.

• Allows the analysis of the e-mail (SMTP), HTTP, Time Of Day, FTP, and any other socket based communication protocol.

• Data can be analyzed using either a raw, binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal format.

• All incoming and outgoing data can be logged with a time stamp.

• All socket state transitions and Socket Workbench events can be logged. This helps to reproduce bugs while testing socket communications.

• Handles the input, display and logging of binary and ASCII data.

• On-line, case sensitive help

• Contains 7 pre-defined configurations to help you get under way as soon as possible.

• Incoming data can be filtered.

• Includes a library of well-known numbers for tcpip ports.

• In server mode, allows any number of clients to connect.

• Allows socket data to be split into messages and fields.

What's new in version 3.1

• Significantly improved user interface.
  
• Sent and received data is displayed on the one screen.
  
• Up to 50% faster
  
• Either incoming data or outgoing data or both can be filtered out
  
• Vastly improved logging of data. Log in Hex or AscII and include time stamps to the millisecond
  
• All logging is recorded to the millisecond
  
• Various bugs and memory leaks have been tracked down and eliminated.
  

Pass Through Mode

^* Socket Workbench was tcpIQ's first product. The 'pass through mode' feature of Socket Workbench was added for completeness but proved to be one of the most popular features. It was decided that this one feature needed to be an entire product by itself. This is why "Proxy Workbench" was written. If you are interested in intercepting socket communications Proxy Workbench is the program for you.

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