WWW Activity Monitor

Whenever you visit an Internet site, your browser will be commanded by the data it receives to connect to some other sites. Some of this connections will add banners and links to the displayed page, others might go to data mining sites and leave there many details about your surfing habits and more.

With this program, you can watch where your browser went and collect some data about this sites for your own.

For the Monitor process to work, your browser have to talk to port 80 (connect directly to the HTTP server), if you use A proxy server (port 8080 etc) the visited sites list will be empty.

This program is FREEWARE. It is provided "as-is", without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

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Program features:

Site information fields
Whois query
Trace route
Save and Clear
Cookies list
Program preferences

Site information fields

 The top 3 fields of the site record are:

Clicking on one of these fields will select the record for Whois and Trace Route operations. If the site name field doesn't contain A valid domain name, the Whois Query button will be disabled.

Double clicking on one of these fields will open the browser menu. Where you can select:

Whois query

 If the Site Name field of the selected site record contain A valid domain name, clicking on the "Whois Query" button will open A dialog where you will be asked to trim the left part of the site name until only the base name is displayed. For example, "v97.c23.go2net.com" is not qualified for Whois query but "go2net.com" is OK. Trim and click the "OK" button and the query results will appear in the black Whois field.

Trace route

Click on the "Trace Route" button to start the Trace Route process. For each server on the way, A line will be added to the green Trace Route field. Because this process uses the blocking calls of the Windows ICMP.DLL, clicking on the "Abort Trace Route" button will not stop the process immediately.

Save and Clear

Click on this button at the end of your Internet session or when the sites list becomes too large.

The sites list will be saved to A text file in the program directory, the file name will be "wwwMonitor_dd_mm_yy_hh_mm.txt" where "dd_mm_yy" is the date and "hh_mm" is the time when the file was saved.

The file will contain one line for each site:

Date/Time: 31/10/2000 14:43:30, Host IP: 209.166.177.37, Host Name: cartman.antionline.net

Cookies list

All of the cookies that were sent to your browser will be logged in this list, whether cookies are enabled or disabled. For each cookie in the list there are 3 data fields: "Cookie" is the ID string, "Domain" is where the cookie was sent from and "Expires" is the life time of the cookie.

The cookie ID string might differ from what your browser will save if cookies are enabled because the program doesn't complete the transaction with the sending domain.

The "Save and Clear" button located in this window will save the list to A text file, each line will be in the format:

Cookie: xxxxxxxxxx, Domain: xxxxxx.xxx, Expires: [Day], [Date] [Time]

Program preferences

The "Preferences" button will open A window where you can select the Whois and Trace Route options.

Use the "Whois server" to select or add the active server name. Some servers return more interesting results than others do.

The Trace Route time out range is between 1000 Ms and 10000 Ms. This value relates to the time the process waits for each server to respond. Short time out value may leave gaps in the servers list, while long time out value will add to the process time overhead.