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TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) Update

TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) version 5 is available for $80.00 for customers with version 4.x.

TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) version 5 is available for $100.00 for customers with version 3.x.

If you have version 5.x.x

If you have version 4.x.x

If you have version 3.x.x

Release Date: 9/14/2007 (Only for customers who have version 5.x.x)

Version 5.51.000

The patches listed below will only update retail versions of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition).

NOTE: If you are having problems installing the patch over your currently installed version (listed below), follow the following procedure.

  1. Uninstall the product you currently have installed (be sure you have a copy of the original product you purchased).

  2. Reinstall the original version you received when you purchased the product.

  3. Reapply the patch you downloaded from here.

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The updater will upgrade the following versions of TracePlus/Web Detective (Standard Edition):

  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.01.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.02.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.03.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.04.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.05.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.11.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.12.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.14.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.15.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.16.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.18.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.20.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.22.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.30.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.32.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.35.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.36.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.38.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.39.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.40.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.45.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v5.50.000

The patch includes all bug fixes up to 9/14/2007. We recommend that you apply this patch so that TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) can operate at its maximum efficiency.

To apply the patch, unzip this file to a temporary directory and run SETUP.EXE from Windows.

If you cannot find the version number of your product in this list, or the update does not work with your product, please e-mail for a new copy of SETUP.EXE.

 

Please note that in order to receive a new copy of SETUP.EXE, you must provide us with a copy of the original SETUP.EXE from your purchased copy of the product.


Version History

Version 5.51.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes or enhancements:
  • User interface has been changed to MDI (Multiple Document Interface) to facilitate easier cross-referencing of information. The following views display in separate windows: (NEW)
    Protocol View
    Object View
    Page View
    Data View
  • Comprehensive tutorial for both new and experienced users. (NEW)
  • Added a second toolbar below the main toolbar which contains the following navigation buttons:  (NEW)
    Move to First Item Move to First Highlighted Item
    Move to Previous Item Move to Previous Highlighted Item
    Move to Next Item Move to Next Highlighted Item
    Move to Last Item Move to Last Highlighted Item
  • Added a new View menu containing navigation shortcuts for the Protocol View.  (NEW)
  • Added the ability to locate a specific item in the Protocol View by entering a sequence number.  (NEW)
  • A "Select Related Items" feature has been added to the Edit menu which selects groups of objects in the Protocol View by the following criteria:  (NEW)
    By Conversation Remote Port Responses with Status Code 4xx
    HTTP Method Thread ID Responses with Status Code 5xx
    Process ID Responses with Status Code 2xx SSL Encrypted
    Remote Address Responses with Status Code 3xx Non-cached Responses
  • Added the ability to hide selected items and unhide items in the Protocol View.  (NEW)
  • Added a "Hide Conversation" option to the Edit menu which hides methods and responses in the Protocol View that are part of a conversation as described by the selected method or response. (NEW)
  • Added the ability to highlight items in the Protocol View with a fixed color for later reference. The status of all highlighted items can be saved to disk. The following items have been added to the Edit menu:
    Toggle Highlight
    Highlight Selected Items
    Highlight All Items
    Reset Highlighted Items
Version 5.45.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes or enhancements:
  • Drag and drop applications and documents from the Windows Desktop, Start Menu, and folders onto the application main window in order to launch them from TracePlus.  (NEW)
  • TracePlus has been modified to run with standard permissions instead of with administrator privileges in Vista. (NEW)
  • If the target application is Internet Explorer and TracePlus is running with standard user permissions under Vista, Protected Mode must be turned off. (NEW)
  • Applications requiring adminstrative rights will cause a warning message to appear in TracePlus if TracePlus is not running with administrative rights. (NEW)
  • Help files reformatted as HTML Help for compatibility with Vista. (NEW)
  • .PDF manual updated with latest product information. (NEW)
  • Internet Explorer would crash while running inside TracePlus on Vista when a secondary browser window was opened. (FIXED)
Version 5.40.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes or enhancements:
  • The capacity of the Protocol View has been increased to 7,000 records. (NEW)
  • Capacity of the Data View has been increased to 25,000 lines. (NEW)
  • Reading files previously generated by TracePlus may cause the application to crash due to incorrect size information recorded for compressed and chunked packets. (FIXED)
Version 5.39.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • HTTP and HTTPS communications may not be captured as expected because of previous changes to the API hooking technology used by TracePlus. (FIXED)
Version 5.38.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The maximum number of records displayed in the Protocol View has been increased from 8,000 to 12,000. (NEW)
  • The maximum number of lines displayed in the Data View has been increased from 12,000 to 20,000. (NEW)
  • The base technology used to intercept Winsock, WININET, and NSPR APIs has been been updated for more stability and speed. (NEW)
  • The decompression of content types "gzip" or "deflate" may cause a buffer overrun in TracePlus which would result in a crash. (FIXED)
  • SSL data may not display as expected when an applications closes a WININET connection handle. (FIXED)
Version 5.36.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Objects whose HTTP response does not contain a "Content-Length" field may not be captured in their entirety. (FIXED)
  • Objects with the content type "gzip" or "deflate" would be decompressed up to maximum of 65535 bytes. (FIXED)
  • Certain SSL enabled sites would not be captured as expected. This problem is seen particularly when the "Remote IP Resolution" feature is disabled. (FIXED)
  • Patch updater would not patch properly licensed products due an error in checking for a digital signature in previous versions of the product. (FIXED)

Version 5.32.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The Setup application was modified to install certain TracePlus menu items under the "All Users" directory which means that they will appear for all user accounts on the PC. Note that this feature can only be obtained by requesting a new SETUP.EXE from the Support department. (NEW)
  • Updated to create, read, and write certain necessary files under limited user accounts.. (NEW)
Version 5.30.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Updated so that the product is compatible with 32 bit versions of Windows Vista Home/Business/Ultimate Editions. (NEW)
  • A colored bar appears in the Elapsed Time column of the Page Summary View which represents the percentage of time taken relative to other objects on the page. (NEW)
  • A colored bar appears in the Size column of the Page Summary View which represents the percentage of bytes downloaded relative to other objects on the page. (NEW)
  • The DLL which intercepts browser requests and responses has been modified for faster execution and compatibility with Windows Vista. (NEW)
  • The ability to intercept applications launched from the Start menu or the Desktop will not be available in Windows Vista. The implementation of his feature uses functionality available in previous versions of Windows that was removed from Vista by Microsoft because of security concerns.
Version 5.22.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The colored bars appearing in the Page View have been updated for a 3-D appearance. (NEW)
  • The URL column in the Object View now includes any parameter information specified in the request URL. (NEW)
  • The URL column in the Page View now includes any parameter information specified in the request URL. (NEW)
  • HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Protocol View from the Header, Header+Body, and Body Content views. (NEW)
  • HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Object View from the Request, Response, and Body Content views. (NEW)
  • HTTP protocol element help can now be accessed in the Page View from the Request, Response, and Body Content views. (NEW)
  • Enhancements to the core API interception technology provide greater compatibility with applications running on all Windows platforms. (NEW)
  • An application may crash when intercepted by TracePlus while running on a HyperThreaded CPU (Intel processors only) on Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • SSL requests and responses may not appear when using an application via a proxy server and the "Remote IP Resolution" option is unchecked. (FIXED)
  • RTSP objects were being tracked and accumulated in the Object View and Page View. This was not intended behavior and has been disabled. (FIXED)
  • Updates of the summary line for one or more pages in the Page View may cause TracePlus to crash due to a threading issue. (FIXED)
Version 5.20.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The Page View has been updated to display objects in order by client request time within the page. The GUI has been enhanced with colored bars for the root page and the summary for that page. (NEW)
  • The Object View has been updated to display root pages using the same color scheme as the Page View.
  • An Offset column has been added to the Page View which displays the request time as an offset from the request time of the root page. (NEW)
  • An Delta Time column has been added to the Page View which displays the offset between the request time of the object and the request time of the previous object. (NEW)
  • A colored bar now appears in the Elapsed Time column which represents the percentage of time taken relative to the page that requested the object. (NEW)
  • A colored bar now appears in the Size column which represents the percentage of bytes downloaded relative to the page that requested the object. (NEW)
  • RTSP methods and responses made by streaming media objects are now displayed in the Protocol View. (NEW)
  • Sizes of objects appearing in the Object View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
  • Sizes of objects appearing in the Page View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
  • Problems with Winsock 2 implementation caused data to be missing or out of sequence. Particularly effects .NET applications but can affect any application using Winsock 2 and GetQueuedCompletionStatus(). (FIXED)
  • Incorrect parsing of chunked data may cause objects to display incorrectly or not at all in the Object View and Page View. (FIXED)
  • Some third party Browser Helper Objects were passing invalid parameters to certain WININET functions causing Internet Explorer to crash when TracePlus referenced the parameter. (FIXED)
Version 5.18.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Minor GUI enhancements such as replacement of dark vertical lines in all grids with lighter colored lines, transparent painting of bitmaps, light colored (white) backgrounds in grids instead of dark colored (dark gray). (NEW)
  • Certain types of domain resolution calls made via the getaddrinfo() API may cause the target application to crash in certain circumstances on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • Newer versions of the Java Runtime Environment would pass an incorrect parameter to the Winsock connect() API causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
  • Certain Browser Helper Objects would pass an invalid parameter to InternetConnect() and InternetOpenURL() causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
  • The IP Address "2.0.0.0" may appear in various Views during SSL connections due to an issue handling domain name requests via getaddrinfo() when running Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • The socket number appearing in the Data VIew as part of an SSL connection may be interpreted as a socket number instead of a WININET handle. (FIXED)
Version 5.16.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added a /PROMPT option which can appear before an executable filename on the TracePlus command line. This forces the Capture Settings dialog box to appear before the application specified after the /PROMPT option is executed. This option is useful when debugging NT services. (NEW)
  • The default behavior of the Capture Settings dialog box appearing when TracePlus is launched with an executable filename specified on the command line has been disabled. Use the /PROMPT directive before the application path if you need the Capture Settings dialog box to appear. (NEW)
  • Random timing errors would occur when running TracePlus on a dual-processor PC or a PC with a dual-core CPU. (FIXED)
  • Removed the prompt to debug child processes since there already is a checkbox for enabling this feature on the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box.
  • Browser Automation Scripts did not work due to invalid parsing of the command line passed to TracePlus. (FIXED)
  • Browser Automation Scripts may not execute correctly because of faulty DDE communications with Internet Explorer. (FIXED)
  • Specifying /START, /STOP, or /RESUME within a Browser Automation Script would not update the toolbar in the main window as expected. (FIXED)
  • Certain applications such as Java Applets launched from a Web Browser may terminate unexpectedly. (FIXED)
  • Start times and elapsed times may be incorrect if the source of data resulted from a call to GetQueuedCompletionStatus(). (FIXED)
  • Memory leaks may occur in the target application because of errors in cache reporting logic. (FIXED)
  • Pressing the Pause button on the toolbar in the main window would disable the Stop button. (FIXED)
  • The splash screen logo would display when TracePlus was launched as a result of double-clicking on a .WDV file in Windows Explorer. (FIXED)
  • The splash screen logo would display when launching a service with TracePlus. (FIXED)
  • The splash screen logo would display when TracePlus was launched using a Browser Automation script. (FIXED)
  • The demo dialog box would display when specifying an application on the TracePlus command line (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
  • The demo dialog box would display when launching a service with TracePlus (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
  • Certain applications such as Java Applets launched from a Web Browser may terminate unexpectedly. (FIXED)
  • Pressing the Pause button on the toolbar in the main window would disable the Stop button. (FIXED)
  • When clicking on an .WDV file in Windows Explorer, it would be ignored if TracePlus was already running. (FIXED)
Version 5.12.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • All 32-bit versions of Windows Vista supported with this release. (NEW)
  • Added a new menu item "View Online FAQ" to the Help menu. This will launch the default browser with the URL of a new Frequently Asked Questions page containing information on how to use the product. (NEW)
  • Added official support for debugging Windows NT services. (NEW)
  • Increased the maximum number of viewable lines in the Data View from 10,000 to 15,000. (NEW)
  • No records would appear in any of the views after receiving the "Do you want to trace" message. (FIXED)
  • Child processes would not be debugged as expected. (FIXED)
  • Incorrect interpretation of calls to getaddrinfo() may result in empty addresses appearing in the DNS Lookup View. (FIXED)
  • Double-clicking on a .WDV file in a "My Computer" or Windows Explorer window launches TracePlus but crashes before the file is loaded. (FIXED)
Version 5.05.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added a column labeled "Process" containing the process name and ID to the Object View. (NEW)
  • Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the Object View. (NEW)
  • Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the Data View. (NEW)
  • Added a column labeled "Process" containing the process name and ID to the DNS Lookup View. (NEW)
  • Added a column labeled "Thread" containing the thread ID to the DNS Lookup View. (NEW)
  • Running TracePlus as a service would not launch the service specified on the command line. (FIXED)
  • Launching TracePlus with an application specified on the command line would not launch the application. (FIXED)
  • When accessing the Capture Options dialog box via the Options menu item on the Capture menu, the application would crash when the Apply button was pressed. (FIXED)
Version 5.04.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Updated the "Save as HTML" feature in all views to enhance the visual presentation of the data. (NEW)
  • Updated the page layouts in all views that support the Print feature. (NEW)
  • Double-clicking on a .WDV file in a "My Computer" or Windows Explorer window launches TracePlus but crashes before the file is loaded. (FIXED)
  • Saving a view as HTML would display an "not available in demo" message. (FIXED)
  • The Protocol Colors tab in the Display Options dialog box would not save colors for the specified items as expected.  (FIXED)

Release Date: 6/4/2007 (Only for customers who have version 4.x.x)

Version 4.38.000

The patches listed below will only update retail versions of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition).

NOTE: If you are having problems installing the patch over your currently installed version (listed below), follow the following procedure.

  1. Uninstall the product you currently have installed (be sure you have a copy of the original product you purchased).

  2. Reinstall the original version you received when you purchased the product.

  3. Reapply the patch you downloaded from here.

HTTP

FTP

The updater will upgrade the following versions of TracePlus/Web Detective (Standard Edition):

  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.01.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.05.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.10.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.12.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.14.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.15.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.16.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.18.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.20.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.21.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.22.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.23.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.25.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.35.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v4.37.000

The patch includes all bug fixes up to 6/4/2007. We recommend that you apply this patch so that TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) can operate at its maximum efficiency.

To apply the patch, unzip this file to a temporary directory and run SETUP.EXE from Windows.

If you cannot find the version number of your product in this list, or the update does not work with your product, please e-mail for a new copy of SETUP.EXE.

Please note that in order to receive a new copy of SETUP.EXE, you must provide us with a copy of the original SETUP.EXE from your purchased copy of the product.


Version History

Version 4.38.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes or enhancements:
  • Reading files previously generated by TracePlus may cause the application to crash due to incorrect size information recorded for compressed and chunked packets. (FIXED)HTTP and HTTPS communications may not be captured as expected because of previous changes to the API hooking technology used by TracePlus. (FIXED)
Version 4.37.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The Setup application was modified to install certain TracePlus menu items under the "All Users" directory which means that they will appear for all user accounts on the PC. Note that this feature can only be obtained by requesting a new SETUP.EXE from the Support department. (NEW)
  • Updated to create, read, and write certain necessary files under limited user accounts.. (NEW)
Version 4.35.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The base technology used to intercept Winsock and WININET APIs has been been updated for more stability and speed. (NEW)
  • SSL data may not display as expected when an applications closes a WININET connection handle. (FIXED)
  • Objects whose HTTP response does not contain a "Content-Length" field may not be captured in their entirety. (FIXED)
  • Objects with the content type "gzip" or "deflate" would be decompressed up to maximum of 65535 bytes. (FIXED)
  • Certain SSL enabled sites would not be captured as expected. This problem is seen particularly when the "Remote IP Resolution" feature is disabled. (FIXED)
  • Patch updater would not patch properly licensed products due an error in checking for a digital signature in previous versions of the product. (FIXED)
  • An application may crash when intercepted by TracePlus while running on a HyperThreaded CPU (Intel processors only) on Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • SSL requests and responses may not appear when using an application via a proxy server and the "Remote IP Resolution" option is unchecked. (FIXED)
  • RTSP objects were being tracked and accumulated in the Object View and Page View. This was not intended behavior and has been disabled. (FIXED)
  • Updates of the summary line for one or more pages in the Page View may cause TracePlus to crash due to a threading issue. (FIXED)
  • Sizes of objects appearing in the Object View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
  • Sizes of objects appearing in the Page View included the size of the HTTP response header. (FIXED)
  • Problems with Winsock 2 implementation caused data to be missing or out of sequence. Particularly effects .NET applications but can affect any application using Winsock 2 and GetQueuedCompletionStatus(). (FIXED)
  • Incorrect parsing of chunked data may cause objects to display incorrectly or not at all in the Object View and Page View. (FIXED)
  • Some third party Browser Helper Objects were passing invalid parameters to certain WININET functions causing Internet Explorer to crash when TracePlus referenced the parameter. (FIXED)
  • Certain types of domain resolution calls made via the getaddrinfo() API may cause the target application to crash in certain circumstances on Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • Newer versions of the Java Runtime Environment would pass an incorrect parameter to the Winsock connect() API causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
  • Certain Browser Helper Objects would pass an invalid parameter to InternetConnect() and InternetOpenURL() causing memory corruption and termination of the target application. (FIXED)
  • The IP Address "2.0.0.0" may appear in various Views during SSL connections due to an issue handling domain name requests via getaddrinfo() when running Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server. (FIXED)
  • The socket number appearing in the Data VIew as part of an SSL connection may be interpreted as a socket number instead of a WININET handle. (FIXED)
  • Removed the prompt to debug child processes since there already is a checkbox for enabling this feature on the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box.
  • The demo dialog box would display when specifying an application on the TracePlus command line (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
  • The demo dialog box would display when launching a service with TracePlus (only in demo versions of the product). (MODIFIED)
  • Incorrect interpretation of calls to getaddrinfo() may result in empty addresses appearing in the DNS Lookup View. (FIXED)

Version 4.25.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • TracePlus now works correctly with HTTP and SSL traffic through HTTP 1.1 compliant proxies. (NEW)
  • A "Reload Cached Objects" option has been added to the View menu. When checked, Internet Explorer will request all objects from the server whether or not they exist in the cache. You can use this feature instead of clearing the Internet Explorer cache. (NEW)
  • The functionality of the Start button has been changed so that you can push the Start button at any time to launch another application while a capture is already started. (NEW)
  • When running in a Terminal Server or Remote Desktop session, the default window position assigned by Windows will be used instead of the saved window position. (NEW)
  • The process of intercepting applications launched from Windows Explorer has been modified so that changing directories within an Explorer view will not cause the "Do you want to trace" prompt to appear. (NEW)
  • Launching applications from shared directories on remote PCs would not cause the "Do you want to trace" prompt to appear. (FIXED)
  • Viewing SSL traffic may cause Internet Explorer to hang unexpectedly due to code added recently to improve handling of redirects. This code was not necessary and has been removed. (FIXED)
  • Streaming video from sites such as ESPN or CNN may playback incorrectly while running inside TracePlus. (FIXED)
  • Applications using Winsock the 2 API (particularly overlapped I/O and completion ports) would result in packets being processed out of order or not at all. (FIXED)
  • Certain Web servers such as IBM WebSphere may send chunked size values one byte at a time, causing TracePlus to prematurely terminate parsing of that object. (FIXED)
  • Headers containing "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" but not any data after the HTTP header may cause a crash . (FIXED)
  • The "Include single byte packets" option in the Data View tab of the Capture Settings dialog box has been removed because single byte packets may be processed as part of an HTTP method or response. (FIXED)
  • The Packet Options displayed in the Data View tab of the Capture Options dialog box incorrectly stated that up to 8192 bytes would be displayed, although 4096 bytes were actually displayed. (FIXED)
Version 4.18.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The ";" character has been added as a valid indicator of query parameters, so parameters following ";" will be parsed out and displayed correctly. (NEW)
  • The "@" character has been added as a valid indicator of query parameters, so parameters following ";" will be parsed out and displayed correctly. (NEW)
  • The rightmost "/" character followed by "parameter=value" is now recognized as a valid indicator of query parameters, so parameters following "/" will be parsed out and displayed correctly. (NEW)
  • The object names appearing in the Object View and Page View would sometimes contain query or fragment information. (FIXED)
  • A breakpoint was mistakenly left in the code which triggered on a specific URL. (MAJOR FIX)
  • Incorrect parsing of an object name could cause TracePlus to crash. (MAJOR FIX)
  • Updating socket connection information may cause an application to crash due to multithreading issues. (FIXED)
  • Certain sequences of compressed headers would not be parsed correctly and do not appear in the Protocol View. (FIXED)
  • Certain sequences of chunked headers would not be parsed correctly and do not appear in the Protocol View. (FIXED)
Version 4.15.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added an Expires column to the Page View. (NEW)
  • Added option to the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box which enables the capturing of applications launched from a command prompt (NT 4.x/2000/XP only). (NEW)
  • Added option to the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box which disables the capturing of child processes spawned from the target process. (NEW)
  • Performance enhancements show a noticeable increase in execution speed for target applications. (NEW)
  • Fixed a problem where TracePlus would crash with an access violation on startup if DEP support was enabled in Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2003 Server SP1. This problem is most likely to occur on PCs with AMD Athlon 64 Family processors, as well as newer Intel Xeon, Pentium 4, Pentium M or "Centrino" processors, and Celeron-D processors. (MAJOR FIX)
Version 4.12.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added an Expires column to the Page View. (NEW)
  • Added option to the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box which enables the capturing of applications launched from a command prompt (NT 4.x/2000/XP only). (NEW)
  • Added option to the Launch Tab of the Capture Settings dialog box which disables the capturing of child processes spawned from the target process. (NEW)
  • Performance enhancements show a noticeable increase in execution speed for target applications. (NEW)
  • Modified the default ordering of windows (as seen on the Window menu) to match the eBusiness Edition.
  • Fixed an issue where objects included on a base page such as Javascript were incorrectly identified as pages, causing succeeding objects to appear in the wrong page on the Page View. (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue where objects in the Page View that failed with a 40x or 50x series error code were not displayed in red. (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue with the Body Contents display in the Page View where selecting a Summary record would display the previously selected object instead of a blank display. (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue with the Validate Links dialog where Web sites requiring authentication would display as inaccessible. An authentication dialog should appear (unless Internet Explorer is configured for automatic authentication). (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue with the Validate Links dialog where Web sites on non-HTTP port numbers could not be traversed. (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue with the Web Performance dialog where Web sites requiring authentication would display as inaccessible. An authentication dialog should appear (unless Internet Explorer is configured for automatic authentication). (FIXED)
  • Fixed an issue with the Web Performance dialog where Web sites on non-HTTP port numbers could not be traversed. (FIXED)

Release Date: 7/14/2005 (Only for customers who have version 3.x.x)

The patches listed below will only update retail versions of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition).

NOTE: If you are having problems installing the patch over your currently installed version (listed below), follow the following procedure.

  1. Uninstall the product you currently have installed (be sure you have a copy of the original product you purchased).

  2. Reinstall the original version you received when you purchased the product.

  3. Reapply the patch you downloaded from here.

HTTP

FTP

The updater will upgrade the following versions of TracePlus/Web Detective (Standard Edition):

  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.00.002
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.00.003
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.05.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.06.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.06.001
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.07.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.10.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.20.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.25.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.50.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.60.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.61.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.64.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.65.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.67.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.70.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.71.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.80.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.81.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.85.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.87.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.88.000
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.88.010
  • TracePlus/Web Detective v3.89.000

The patch includes all bug fixes up to 7/14/2005. We recommend that you apply this patch so that TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) can operate at its maximum efficiency.

To apply the patch, unzip this file to a temporary directory and run SETUP.EXE from Windows.

If you cannot find the version number of your product in this list, or the update does not work with your product, please e-mail for a new copy of SETUP.EXE.

Please note that in order to receive a new copy of SETUP.EXE, you must provide us with a copy of the original SETUP.EXE from your purchased copy of the product.


Version History

Version 3.90.000 of TracePlus®/Web Detective (Standard Edition) includes the following fixes and enhancements:
  • When running .NET applications under Windows 2000 and Windows XP using .NET Framework 1.1, HTTP responses would not be seen by TracePlus. (FIXED)
  • HTTP sessions would not display correctly if a web application was using overlapped I/O or I/O completion ports. (FIXED)

Version 3.89.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Some compressed objects received from the server would not be decompressed as expected. (FIXED)
  • The context menu in the Protocol was not appearing as expected when right-clicking within the view. (FIXED)
  • When text objects were displayed in the Body Content View, the text editor would be incorrectly sized relative to the Body Content View. (FIXED)
  • Copying over 3000 items to the clipboard in all views would take a significant length of time. (FIXED)
  • HTTP response headers that specify Transfer-Encoding: Chunked, when in reality the data was not chunked might cause TracePlus to crash. (FIXED)
  • Support for BCOPY, BDELETE, BMOVE, BPROPFIND, BPROPPATCH, and X-MS-ENUMATTS methods available in Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003. (NEW)
Version 3.85.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added a new Body Content viewer to the Protocol View. The Body Content View displays the content of the selected HTTP request or response in its native text or graphical format. Text will be displayed with carriage returns and line feeds notated for reference. Tabs are expanded, and word wrapping is turned off. Images will be displayed actual size. Above each image will be displayed a description of the image, including its dimensions and number of colors. If the object does not use a color palette, then the word "RGB" will be displayed. (NEW)
  • Added a new Body Content viewer to the Object View. (NEW)
  • Support for HTTP headers with either "deflate" and "gzip" content encodings. Headers will be decompressed by TracePlus and displayed in their original format. (NEW)
  • Trace files may load incorrectly due to the sort option being added to the Protocol View, which causes records to be loaded in random order (not in sequential order as aspected). The side affect of this means that the "Start at record" option in the Import dialog box would not work as expected. (FIXED)
  • The DNS Lookup View has been removed from the product, and replaced with the Body Content View.
  • The SSL features may not work correctly if the application is using WININET in a Unicode environment. (FIXED)
Version 3.81.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • The demo version of the product would crash due to a invalid pointer being passed to a memory allocation function.  (FIXED)
  • The DNS Lookup View was not working as expected because the logic to implement the feature was missing from WINSDATA.DLL.  (FIXED)
  • An error when intercepting the Winsock function accept() may cause the target application to crash or not work as expected.  (FIXED)
  • The international date, time, and numeric formatting can be reset to English (United States) by selecting "Use English (U.S.) Formatting" from the View menu. This feature is enabled only if the user locale specified in Windows is OTHER than English (United States). (NEW)
Version 3.80.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Supports the date, time, and numeric formats of over thirty countries:

     

    Australia France New Zealand
    Austria Germany Norway
    Belgium Iceland Paraguay
    Bolivia Indonesia Philippines
    Brazil Ireland Portugal
    Canada Italy South Africa
    Chile Jamaica Sweden
    Colombia Liechenstein Switzerland
    Denmark Malaysia United Kingdom
    Finland Mexico Venezuela

    (NEW)

  • Now compatible with .NET Web Services, ASP.NET, HTML Applications (HTAs), .NET Remoting, and applications written for the .NET Framework (SSL under .NET is not supported at this time). (NEW)
  • When "Clear all Views" was selected, the Details View (the lower half of the Protocol View) would not be cleared. (FIXED)
  • The Export feature is now disabled when a trace is started.
  • The Process column in the Data View has been modified to display the Process ID in hexidecimal only if Windows 98/ME. The number is now right justified.
  • The Clear Internet Explorer Cache option on the View menu did not clear the cache as expected. (FIXED)
  • When using Browser automation scripts: The /IE_CLEARCACHE option did not clear the IE cache as expected. (FIXED)
  • Modified the saving of application filenames and parameter lists in the Launch dialog box so that embedded quotes would be saved correctly. (FIXED)
Version 3.65.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Single packet headers containing no "Content-Length" field may not appear in the Protocol View until the socket closes. (FIXED)
  • When using Browser automation Scripts: The /RESUME command acts as the /START command and starts a new instance of the current application, rather than resuming the capture. (FIXED)
  • When using Browser automation Scripts: The /RESUME command will not reopen the log files, therefore information will not be written to the log files after the /RESUME command is issued. (FIXED)
Version 3.64.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • SSL responses displayed by TracePlus may have been cached by Internet Explorer on your system drive. TracePlus now displays these cached items in a brown color in all Views. (NEW)
  • The "Automatic" and "ASCII" display options in the Data View Settings tab considered characters greater than ASCII 132 as binary, thus either displaying the data in hex or not displaying it at all. The range considered as ASCII characters has been expanded to ASCII 32-255, thus including international characters. (FIXED)
  • The Web Performance dialog box would crash when long URLs were typed into the URL combo box, and the Start button was pressed. (FIXED)
  • The Web Performance dialog box did not handle correctly situations where the URL entered into the URL combo box returned an 404 Not Found error. (FIXED)
  • URLs that contained an ampersand ("&") within a path or filename would be abnormally truncated. (FIXED)
  • Under some circumstances, the TracePlus application would crash with the error "Exception 0x8000003", due to several DebugBreak() statements left in the code. (FIXED)
  • When monitoring an HTTP 1.0 data stream, TracePlus would report object sizes of zero because the "Content-Length" header field was missing. (FIXED)
Version 3.61.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • A DNS Lookup View has been added in the Protocol View (next to the Details window). Displays results and response times for host name lookups. (NEW)
  • Browser Automation scripts now generate a DNS Lookup Times report in tab limited ASCII format.
  • Browser Automation scripts now output DNS Lookup statistics in tab limited ASCII format in addition to the other files. (NEW)
  • A new option DNS_LOOKUP:NO_REPORT has been added to the Browser Automation syntax.
  • The Save as ASCII feature now outputs DNS Lookup statistics in tab limited ASCII format in addition to the other files. (NEW)
  • A "Maximize Pane" feature has been added to the Protocol View and Page View. (NEW)
  • A "Restore Panes" feature has been added to the Protocol View and Page View. (NEW)
  • TracePlus can now detect applications launched from the Desktop under Windows 2000 if Service Pack 3 or more is installed. This feature is also now compatible with all Security Updates. (FIXED)
Version 3.50.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Previous versions of the Web Detective presented HTTP headers in order that TracePlus intercepted them from the application. Since many Internet applications are multi-threaded, it became time consuming to locate the HTTP request and matching response in the Protocol View. (NEW)
  • The Protocol View can sorted by either session ID or sequence number. What happens is that all requests and responses will line up in pairs (except when the client makes more than one request simultaneously on the same socket. This way, you can easily understand the logical grouping of HTTP requests and responses. (NEW)
  • The Object View can be sorted by session ID. You can easily visualize the logical grouping of objects via server connections. (NEW)
  • The Data View can be sorted by session ID. You can easily visualize the logical order of data packets as they were sent or received via server connections. (NEW)
  • The Export as ASCII feature will generate one ASCII file for each of the four Views in realtime while a trace is running. This feature is identical in functionality to how the Browser Automation Scripts generate ASCII files. (NEW)
  • TracePlus/Web Detective (Standard Edition) is now compatible with Windows Server 2003. (NEW)
  • WININET would report objects retrieved from local cache as a response code 200 (OK), when the response code was 304 (Not Modified). This only occurs on SSL connections. (FIXED)
  • The HTML output was significantly enhanced to match the HTML output of TracePlus/Web Detective (eBusiness Edition) and TracePlus/Ethernet. (FIXED)
  • Computer Name, IP address, and Service Pack information has added to exported RDF files This information is added when RDF files are created so that you can easily identify RDF files generated on other PCs. (NEW)
  • A "Select All" option has been added to the Edit menu and right-click menus for each View. (NEW)
  • A "Scroll while Capturing" option has been added to the View menu. This feature determines whether the each View will scroll automatically to the last item in the View when a new item is added. If this option is checked, all Views will scroll automatically, otherwise you can press End or Ctrl+Pg Dn to find the last item in the View. (NEW)
Version 3.25.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:

NOTE: If you have previously downloaded the 3.20.000 update, please download this newer update. It corrects a problem with debug code left in the 3.20.000 version that may cause timeout issues with Internet Explorer.

  • Disable application debugger detection feature will prevent the application from detecting that it is being run in a debugger. Some well known applications have code in them that prevent applications such as TracePlus from revealing the way that they operate. Such applications abort immediately after they are launched, or disable certain features of the application when a debugger is detected. (NEW).
  • SSL POST requests made by Javascript applications would not be seen by TracePlus. (FIXED)
  • A new executable called TPBATCH.EXE now ships with TracePlus which provides the Browser Automation Script feature. A sample script is installed with the latest SETUP.EXE and is located in the same directory as TPWEB32.EXE.
  • Several new commands were added to the Browser Automation Script feature to support the automation of Internet Explorer:
    /IE_LAUNCH /IE_CLEARCOOKIES
    /IE_URL /IE_EXIT
    /IE_CLEAR_CACHE  
  • The /LOG option will now create the requested filename in the "My Documents" directory if no drive or path is specified before the filename.
  • The /PAUSE feature for the Browser Automation Script would pause for only half of the requested number of seconds. (FIXED)
  • Added "Clear Internet Explorer Cache" option to the View menu. (NEW).
  • Added "Clear Internet Explorer Cookies" option to the View menu. (NEW).
  • The "Save as ASCII" option now saves the Data View in a column type format (tab delimited) that is suitable for import into Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet application.
  • The Page View was not displaying the last item in the View due to a problem with the fix that was made in version 3.07.000  (MAJOR FIX)
Version 3.07.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • When tracing SSL connections, the cookie passed to the server via an HTTP request would not be displayed. (MAJOR FIX)
  • When importing large RDF files, TracePlus may crash in WEBGUI.DLL with an access violation. (MAJOR FIX)
  • Uses Windows XP colors and styles (theme) when running under Windows XP. (NEW).
Version 3.06.001 included the following fixes and enhancements
  • When exporting the Page View as ASCII, a Date field appears as column 1 in the file. However, the column header was omitted, so all columns appear to have the wrong column header when loaded into a spreadsheet such as Microsoft Excel.
  • The Data View would display up to the number of bytes specified in the "Display up to" option if the "Display all" option was selected in the Data Options dialog box. (MAJOR FIX)
  • The Data View would display the entire packet if the "Display up to" option was selected in the Data Options dialog box. (MAJOR FIX)
Version 3.05.000 included the following fixes and enhancements:
  • Added a new column called "URL" to the Page View, which displays the actual URL of the specified object (minus the "http://" or https://" prefix). (NEW).
  • Added a new column called "URL" to the Object View, which displays the actual URL of the specified object (minus the "http://" or https://" prefix). (NEW).
  • When using the "Save as RDF" or "Save as ZIP" features, the contents of the Page View would be saved to a file twice. (MAJOR FIX)

The following fixes and enhancements apply to the Web Performance feature and Validate Links feature:

  • An "Exclude URLs" feature was added so that URLs containing with recursive links can be filtered so that the drilldown will not continue endlessly.
  • URLs with a trailing slash would be identified as (default page).
  • If an image tag contained options other than <IMG SRC=>, then the succeeding HTML would be parsed incorrectly.
  • URLs containing parameters were not properly handled, causing the "drilldown" logic to create improperly formatted URLs, causing TracePlus to crash in certain situations.
  • URLs with relative paths, i.e. "../assets/image.gif" were not being parsed correctly.
  • URLs with root paths, i.e. "./images/button.gif" would generate an improperly formatted URL which would lead to a "404 Not Found" error.
  • HTML Page names would be parsed incorrectly if parameters were present.
  • A coding error when parsing URLs via WININET could cause memory corruption.
  • A blank page name was being displayed when the base page name was determined
  • to be a slash ("/"). This has been changed to the phrase "(default page)".
  • The column widths of the two list views in each dialog box could not be adjusted while a web site is being tested.
  • If either dialog box is maximized or minimized then closed, then the dialog could not
  • restored to normal size when the dialog box is displayed again.
  • The Web Performance dialog box would not display objects that had a return code of >= 400 in the lower list view, when an HTML object was selected in the upper list view.
  • When clicking on a object in the upper list view (both dialog boxes), if the URL was over 256 characters, TracePlus would crash.
  • The <BASE HREF> tag was not being checked, so the URL for links relative to that page would be calculated incorrectly.
  • The Web Performance feature did not display statistics for certain media types such as .PDF, .WAV, .RM, .AVI, etc.