The Web tools menu can be invoked from the main menu and contains four small utilities which can be useful to examine the data exchanged between the web browser and the webserver.
Tools / Utilities:
| performs a base64 transformation, or its inverse operation, as appropriate. The base64 algorithm is often used to obfuscate the values of CGI parameters. The inverse operation allows you to decode such obfuscated values. |
| performs a URL-encoding transformation, or its inverse operation, as appropriate. This algorithm is often used to mask special characters within the values of CGI parameters, and is also used when HTMLform parameters are transmitted to the web server. |
| Does a DNS Look-up (optionally using a specific DNS Server) to get the IP address of the hostname. |
| examines the SSL configuration of an HTTPS web server "from outside“, and displays Tips about SSL misconfigurations. |