HTTP Request Inspector
Paste a raw HTTP request to inspect its method, target, headers, query parameters, cookies, and body directly in your browser. This is a static text-inspection tool.
Raw HTTP Request
By using this free tool, you agree to the Efneze Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Processing runs in your browser during normal use. Avoid pasting sensitive, production, credential, token, PHI, or confidential data unless permitted by your organization's policies.
HTTP Request Inspector
No Request Parsed
Paste and parse a request to inspect its details.
1Request-Line Parsing
Inspect the HTTP method, request target, protocol version, host, path, port, and URL components.
2Headers & Cookies
Review headers, repeated values, cookies, authorization schemes, content types, and request metadata.
3Body Inspection
Format and inspect JSON, form-encoded, text, and other request bodies without sending the request.
4Local Processing
Raw request text is processed in your browser during normal use and is not intentionally transmitted to $Efneze servers.
Inspect Raw HTTP Requests Before Debugging APIs and Integrations
Raw HTTP requests combine a request line, headers, query parameters, cookies, and an optional body. When those parts are copied from logs, documentation, test tools, or integration traces, it can be difficult to review repeated headers, encoded parameters, content types, and structured payloads in one block of text.
The HTTP Request Inspector separates a pasted request into readable sections so developers, data engineers, QA teams, and integration specialists can inspect its structure without sending the request to an endpoint.
Common HTTP Request Inspector Use Cases
API debugging
Review request methods, paths, query parameters, headers, and JSON bodies copied from development logs or API test tools.
Integration troubleshooting
Inspect content types, correlation IDs, repeated headers, cookies, and payload structure when investigating system-to-system requests.
Documentation review
Clean up and verify raw request examples before adding them to API documentation, tickets, runbooks, or support notes.
Form and query inspection
Decode common form-urlencoded and query-string values while preserving their raw representations.
HTTP Parsing and Validation Limits
This tool parses common HTTP/1.x-style textual request representations. It does not send requests, intercept network traffic, validate credentials, test endpoint availability, perform security scanning, or replace protocol conformance testing. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 use different framing formats and are not parsed as raw wire traffic by this text-based inspector.
Sensitive Headers and Request Data
HTTP requests may contain authorization headers, cookies, API keys, internal hostnames, personal information, and production payloads. Sensitive-looking header values are masked by default, but users should still work with synthetic, redacted, or non-sensitive examples unless their organization permits otherwise.
Related Developer and Data Tools
HTTP requests often contain JSON, XML, YAML, form data, and API payloads. Use the JSON Viewer to inspect JSON bodies, the XML Viewer for XML content, the YAML Viewer for configuration-style payloads, the API Payload Validator to compare JSON with OpenAPI schemas, and the Regex Builder to create text-matching patterns. Use the SQL Formatter for SQL query debugging, and the Flat File Viewer for CSVs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an HTTP Request Inspector?
An HTTP Request Inspector parses pasted raw request text into sections such as the request method, target, protocol version, headers, query parameters, cookies, and body.
Does this tool send HTTP requests?
No. The tool only parses and displays raw HTTP request text that you paste into it. It does not connect to endpoints, send requests, replay traffic, or test server responses.
Can I inspect HTTP headers?
Yes. The inspector displays header names and values, preserves duplicate headers, identifies several common header types, and masks sensitive-looking values by default.
Can this tool inspect JSON request bodies?
Yes. When a request body contains valid JSON, the inspector can format it and display its parsed structure. Invalid JSON is reported without modifying the original raw body.
Does the inspector validate authentication tokens or cookies?
No. It can identify authorization schemes and parse cookie names, but it does not verify credentials, authenticate users, decode secrets by default, or determine whether tokens and cookies are valid.
Does this tool support HTTP/2 or HTTP/3?
The inspector is designed primarily for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1-style textual requests. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 use different framing formats and are not parsed as raw wire traffic by this text-based tool.
Can I inspect query parameters and form data?
Yes. The tool can display raw and decoded query parameters and parse common application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies while preserving repeated fields and empty values.
Are sensitive headers hidden?
Common sensitive headers such as Authorization, Cookie, Proxy-Authorization, and API-key-style headers are masked by default. Masking is informational and may not identify every sensitive custom header.
Is HTTP request input uploaded to ${Brand.name} servers?
The tool processes pasted request text in the browser during normal use, and tool input is not intentionally transmitted to ${Brand.name} servers. Avoid pasting credentials, tokens, cookies, production payloads, PHI, or confidential data unless permitted by your organization’s policies.
Who uses HTTP request inspectors?
Developers, QA engineers, data engineers, integration teams, support engineers, API designers, and technical writers use HTTP request inspectors to review and document request structure.