Version History
Version 2.26.01 - December 13, 2009
· | [BugFix] Improved detection of network adapters -- was failing to list all available adapters on some people's computers. Thanks to ixxo and everyone else on dc forum who reported and helped test (see here for the thread). |
Version 2.25.01 - October 29, 2009
· | Updated with latest version of WinPCap (4.1.1) - Now supports Windows 7 |
· | [BugFix] The error about index out of range when network adapters have changed on restart should be fixed. |
· | [BugFix] Settings file was still being saved in application directory even on Win Vista/7; new version respects configdir.ini and portable settings, as well as storing working files in user documents directory by default on Win Vista/7. |
Version 2.23.01 - March 14, 2009
· | Updated with latest version of WinPCap (4.1beta5). |
· | Improved wording of automatic network adapter detection failure message. |
· | Improved packet reconstruction should reduce chance of packets being split in the middle. |
Version 2.22.02 - December 24, 2008
· | [BugFix] Default URL for network adapter testing was a google page that no longer exists; updated. |
· | [Change] URL Snooper should now insist on Admin rights when be running on Vista. |
Version 2.22.01 - June. 4, 2008
· | Added option to customize the url used to test network adapter auto detection, changed default from donationcoder to small google css stylesheet page (this takes load off donationcoder server and should reassure concerned that urlsnooper was somehow "phoning home"). |
· | Fixed language translation files. |
· | Increased max URLS that can be kept at once. |
· | New option to discard filtered-out urls that aren't display; normally the program stores all urls found even if its currently set to filter out all but multimedia urls, so that you can change the view filter to show all urls after the fact. The new option will discard them during filtering, which is a good solution for people who were ending up storing huge numbers of urls while searching for multimedia urls. |
· | Removed some code to reassemble packets (it's possible this could result in worse url grabbing in rare cases -- stay tuned). |
Version 2.21.01 - Dec. 12, 2007
· | Increased packet buffer size, should eliminate error on some computers where it reports "Packets are bigger than reserved buffer" (see here). |
· | Added back buttons to parse single packets. |
Version 2.19.02 - Aug. 18th, 2007
· | Fixed bug which was causing crashes win win9x/ME |
· | Changing languages was messing up the network adapter combo box. |
· | Changing network adapter manually now disables the autonetwork detection checkbox. |
Version 2.18.01 - Feb. 4th, 2007
· | Updated installer to use WinPcap 4.0 final on WinXp/Nt/Vista |
· | Added code so installer uses WinPcap 4beta2 on Win9x/Me (last version to support these versions) |
Version 2.16.01 - Nov. 30th, 2006
· | Now works on Windows VISTA (!) |
Version 2.15.01 - Nov. 28th, 2006
· | Snooper was unnecessarily checking website when snooping even when autodetect network adapter was not set - thanks DPK. |
Version 2.14.02 - Nov. 6th, 2006
· | Updated to properly autodetect network adapter when IE7 is installed. |
Version 2.13.04 - 7/18/06
· | Added detection of some multimedia keywords (WMA,MP3) in URL arguments as potential multimedia URLs |
· | Added .asx as multimedia URL extension |
· | Minor changes to help file and manual |
· | Added troubleshooting note about an error if you skip installing WinPCap. |
· | Various spelling errors corrected. |
· | Added a couple more troubleshooting help pages |
Version 2.10.06 - 7/02/06
· | Detects and identifies "reflector:" links as streaming media links. |
Version 2.09.10 - 6/22/06
· | Sped up changing of filter display |
· | If you disabled autotesting for network card it could sometimes retest until a restart of program. |
· | Improved inferencing of ip address of partial (relative) URLs. |
· | Improved multi-packet assembling. |
· | Added notes for installing on Windows VISTA. |
Version 2.09.08 - 6/20/06
· | Installer makes clearer that WinPCap install is mandatory. |
· | Fixed rare but harmless "index out of range" error on switching to Advanced mode. |
· | Fixed rare but bug where mouse click was ignored on buttons. |
Version 2.08.02 - 6/10/06
· | Very minor text changes in help file and installer. |
· | File+View menus combined. |
· | Favorite websites menu removed from simple mode. |
Version 2.06.05 - 5/07/06
· | Improved handling if a language file is deleted. |
· | Improved some multilingual features. |
· | Thanks to Joto (German Translation) |
· | Thanks to Simeon Lapinbleu and Vianney Jonville (French Translation) |
Version 2.06.04 - 5/02/06
· | Made Simple mode default. |
Version 2.06.03 - 5/02/06
· | Major feature: Added simple and advanced (normal) modes; simple is much easier for new users. |
· | Major feature: Added Automatic network adapter selection - it will now test all adapters until it finds one that works and can sniff URLs. |
· | Major feature: Multilingual support. |
· | Minor feature: Minimize to tray button. |
· | Minor feature: Added "flv" to multimedia list |
· | Minor feature: Added "edit favorites" item in menu. |
· | Minor improvement: Added http:// to relative urls that need them. |
Version 2.05.01 - 12/9/05
· | no more separate manual url download dialog - you can down type in a url directly at bottom of form to EITHER download and scan source code, or start network searching and sniff traffic; should make it easier for quick jobs. |
· | new license policy - program will never stop working only nag for you to get a renewed freeware key after 6 months, and after 1 year you can download full permanent non-expiring license key. |
· | fixed tab ordering of some controls. |
· | there are now 2 save urls options (save all and save selected) |
· | quick filter is now colored red to prevent you from forgetting you have it active |
· | save url file no longer has extra \r at end of each line. |
· | file searching was not returning case sensitive urls |
· | added .pls to multimedia extensions |
· | added ability to use - in front of filter keywords to say hide strings with keyword |
· | Version 2.04.04 - 10/03/05 |
1) the method turning off promiscuous mode has been adjusted to better work around bugs preventing some lan adapaters (INTEL) from sniffing unless promiscous mode is turned off in a specific fashion. If your adapter doesn't seem to sniff traffic make sure to try checking "only from this computer" option.
2) the only sniff from this computer option has been made default.
· | Version 2.04.01 - 5/15/05 |
1) urls were being forced to lowercase - fixed
· | Version 2.03.09 - 3/10/05 |
1) New customizable Websites menu.
2) Detection of more url link types, better reporting.
3) Ability to specify custom browser.
4) Packet spanning(!) to avoid split urls.
5) Now hosted officially at http://www.donationcoder.com.
6) New Always-On-Top option
7) New Help file.
· | Version 2.01.00 - 02/06/05 |
1) version 2 marks a major overhaul to the user interface in order to simplify it and make operation easier.
2) more flexible filtering options.
3) better removal of duplicates.
4) better identification of relative links.
5) better identification of protocol information.
· | Version 1.02.01 - 3/17/03 |
1) Compiled and packaged with WinPcap library v3.0 (http://winpcap.polito.it/).
2) Restructured the packet-viewing interface; now instead of a separate window, packets are shown in normal packet view if "View Live Packets" is checked.
3) New checkbox to hide file date/path/name columns, useless when doing network sniffing.
4) Added detection and rebuilding for relatively addressed files making use of "Host: " and "Get \" fields
· | Version 1.1 beta 1 - 06/10/02 |
1) Improved help for selecting the right network adapter.
2) Support for new WinPcap library v2.3 and later, which should provide better Windows XP support (http://winpcap.polito.it/).
3) All users may now select whether to restrict sniffing to current computer on a lan (only works for Win9x/ME ?).
4) Built in raw packet viewer for watching ALL packets.
5) fixed bug where extra ' character at end of url was not removed (thanks to finkl).
· | Version 1.0 beta 6 - 02/21/01 |
1) Fixed minot bug in keyword searching that would result in blank url captions for found keywords.
2) Fixed small bug where the last character of a sream was a \ which resulted in an error if you tried to paste into streambox.
3) First public release of program.
· | Version 1.0 beta 5 - 02/17/01 |
1) MAJOR: Turns out the new network drivers were cutting off packets at 255 bytes maximum length, which resulted in URL Snooper not detecting many urls. Fixed.
2) Fixed bug where urls were automatically lowercased, resulting in some urls not being downloadable.
3) Confirmation (thanks bovric) that URL Snooper works on Windows ME.
4) Increased cpu time devoted to consuming packets in the local buffer, should result in less buildup of packets, possible slower gui response during periods of high network traffic.
· | Version 1.0 beta 4 - 02/17/01 |
1) Fixed problem with filtering local traffic on computers with multiple ips.
2) Added ability to use previous Distinct Network drivers via a registry
setting (see AdvancedNetworkDriverInfo.txt).
3) Windows NT and Windows 2000 compatibility has been confirmed.
4) Modified the installer so that it automatically launches the WinPcap
network driver installation program.
· | Version 1.0 beta 3 - 02/15/01 |
1) Another try at Win2000 compatibility.
2) Installation now automatically launches WinPcap network driver installer.
3) Now forces rename of initial default config file to avoid overwriting
this file during upgrades.
· | Version 1.0 beta 2 - 02/13/01 |
1) MAJOR: Changed to network drivers which should work on win 2000 and win nt!
2) URL comment heuristic now also scans file extensions (.asf,.wma,.ra,etc.).
"Hide Non-streaming URLs" option will no longer hide urls of the form
"http://www.site.com/file.asf"
3) Fixed bug where if url ended at the end of a file or packet, last
character was truncated.
4) Fixed bug where network packet text was being forced to lowercase
5) Fixed the about box to indicate the proper program version.
· | Version 1.0 beta 1 - 02/13/01 |
1) First Release of program
Here are some things that being considered for future releases:
· | multilingual stuff - delete all .XXX when the .XXX.lng is newer |
· | move to a generic, configurable regex checklist for extracting urls |
· | some urls (for example see cspan.org) have '; left on at end of them. |
· | Fix save changes bug, wont let you save over default.cfg |
· | Save registry to Current User instead of Local Machine |
· | Ability to configure which fields to show in result list (or at least hide silly ones) |
· | Ability to specify file extension filters. |
· | More flexible and general pattern searching. |
· | More helpful comments for located items. |
· | smart threaded testing of urls |
· | smarter quick rejection of urls |
· | better protocol labeling for pls urls |
· | fix resize column nextgrid bug |
· | check for preset value in preset form set |
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