What makes working with WebSockets challenging at times is that the messages are extremely tiny and incredibly fast – making it hard to see them. 
With the updated Chrome Dev Tools, you can now see the WebSocket traffic coming and going to and from your browser without using tools like Wireshark. Here are the simple steps to make the invisible visible:
1. At the time of writing this post (May 8, 2012), you need to get Chrome Canary or a fresh Chromium build.
2. Navigate to the Echo demo, hosted on the websocket.org site.
3. Turn on the Chrome Developer Tools.
4. Click Network, and to filter the traffic shown by the Dev Tools, click WebSockets (all the way on the bottom).
5. In the Echo demo, click Connect.
6. Click www.websocket.org on the left, representing the WebSocket connection.
7. Make sure you’re on the Headers tab. This tab shows the WebSocket handshake.
Request URL:ws://echo.websocket.org/?encoding=text
Request Method:GET
Status Code: 101 Web Socket Protocol Handshake
Request Headers
Connection:Upgrade
Cookie:__utma=9925811.1340073179.1336513627.1336513627.1336513627.1; __utmb=9925811.4.10.1336513627; __utmc=9925811; __utmz=9925811.1336513627.1.1.utmcsr=websocket.org|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/
Host:echo.websocket.org
Origin:http://www.websocket.org
Sec-WebSocket-Extensions:x-webkit-deflate-frame
Sec-WebSocket-Key:DIbT9axdUEPm89HWFqMAZA==
Sec-WebSocket-Version:13
Upgrade:websocket
(Key3):00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
Query String Parameters view URL encoded
encoding:text
Response Headers
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers:content-type
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:http://www.websocket.org
Connection:Upgrade
Date:Tue, 08 May 2012 22:14:46 GMT
Sec-WebSocket-Accept:rKTyKcnJ105fv4ebnspiYbCB9ns=
Server:Kaazing Gateway
Upgrade:WebSocket
(Challenge Response):00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
8. Click the Send button in the Echo demo.
9. THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT: To see the WebSocket frames in the Chrome Developer Tools, under Name/Path, click the echo.websocket.org entry, representing your WebSocket connection. This refreshes the main panel on the right and makes the WebSocket Frames tab show up with the actual WebSocket message content.
Note: Every time you send or receive new messages, you have to refresh the main panel by clicking on the echo.websocket.org entry on the left.
The little arrow indicates the direction of the message, after the timestamp, op code, and mask you see the length and contents of the WebSocket message.
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