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The request details pane appears when you click on a network request in the request list. This pane provides more detailed information about the request.

Network request details

Clicking on a row displays a new pane in the right-hand side of the network monitor, which provides more detailed information about the request.

The screenshots and descriptions in this section reflect Firefox 78. Earlier versions appeared similarly, but might not include some functionality.

The tabs at the top of this pane enable you to switch between the following pages:

• Headers
• Messages (only for WebSocket items)
• Cookies
• Params
• Response
• Cache
• Timings
• Security (only for secure pages)
• Stack trace (only when the request has a stack trace, e.g. a script called by another script).

Clicking the icon at the right-hand end of the toolbar closes the details pane and returns you to the list view.

Headers tab

The Headers tab has a toolbar, followed by three main sections.

This includes:

• Information about the request
  • Status: The response status code for the request; click the "?" icon to go to the reference page for the status code.
  • Version: The version of HTTP used.
  • Transferred: The amount of data transferred for the request.
  • Referrer policy: The value of the Referrer-policy header.
• HTTP Response headers
• HTTP Request headers

Each section has a disclosure triangle to expand the section to show more information.

Headers toolbar

Using the Headers toolbar, you can:

• Filter the headers in the Response Headers and Request Headers sections.
• Block the domain involved in this request. The domain is added to the Blocking sidebar.
• Resend the request. The Resend button opens a menu with two items:
  • Resend: Resends the request.
  • Edit and Resend: Enables an editing mode, where you can modify the method, URL, request headers, or request body of the request. Click Send to send the modified request, or Cancel to cancel editing.

Request Information

The following information is shown only when the section is expanded:

• Scheme: The scheme used in the URL
• Host: The server involved in the request
• Filename: The full path to the file requested
• Address: The IP address of the host

The following information is shown in both the collapsed and the expanded states:

• Status: The HTTP response code for the request.
• Version: The HTTP version used
• Transferred: The amount of data transferred with the request
• The Referrer Policy, which governs which referrer information, sent in the Referer header, should be included with requests. (See Referrer-Policy for a description of possible values)
• Blocking: If the request is to a site that is associated with a known tracker, an icon and a message are shown; otherwise, this field is not shown.

Response headers

The response headers section shows details about the response. For each line in the response headers section, a question mark links to the documentation for that response header, if one is available.

A Raw toggle button in the section heading controls whether the headers are shown with formatting, or as plain, unformatted text.

Note that the keys in the response header are all in lowercase, while the request headers keys are not. HTTP/2 requires that all headers be lowercase; response headers are shown as they are received from the server. (There may be some exceptions, such as X-Firefox-Spdy, which is added by Firefox.)

You can copy some or all of the response header in JSON format by using the context menu:

If you select Copy, a single key word, value pair is copied. If you select Copy All, the entire header is copied in JSON format, giving you something like this (after running the results through a JSON validator):

{
  "Response headers (1.113 KB)": {
    "headers": [
      {
        "name": "accept-ranges",
        "value": "bytes"
      },
      {
        "name": "age",
        "value": "0"
      },
      {
        "name": "backend-timing",
        "value": "D=74716 t=1560258099074460"
      },
      {
        "name": "cache-control",
        "value": "private, must-revalidate, max-age=0"
      },
      {
        "name": "content-disposition",
        "value": "inline; filename=api-result.js"
      },
      {
        "name": "content-encoding",
        "value": "gzip"
      },
      {
        "name": "content-length",
        "value": "673"
      },
      {
        "name": "content-type",
        "value": "text/javascript; charset=utf-8"
      },
      {
        "name": "date",
        "value": "Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:01:39 GMT"
      },
      {
        "name": "mediawiki-login-suppressed",
        "value": "true"
      },
      {
        "name": "p3p",
        "value": "CP=\"This is not a P3P policy! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/P3P for more info.\""
      },
      {
        "name": "server",
        "value": "mw1316.eqiad.wmnet"
      },
      {
        "name": "server-timing",
        "value": "cache;desc=\"pass\""
      },
      {
        "name": "strict-transport-security",
        "value": "max-age=106384710; includeSubDomains; preload"
      },
      {
        "name": "vary",
        "value": "Accept-Encoding,Treat-as-Untrusted,X-Forwarded-Proto,Cookie,Authorization,X-Seven"
      },
      {
        "name": "via",
        "value": "1.1 varnish (Varnish/5.1), 1.1 varnish (Varnish/5.1)"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-analytics",
        "value": "ns=-1;special=Badtitle;WMF-Last-Access=11-Jun-2019;WMF-Last-Access-Global=11-Jun-2019;https=1"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-cache",
        "value": "cp1075 pass, cp1075 pass"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-cache-status",
        "value": "pass"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-client-ip",
        "value": "204.210.158.136"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-content-type-options",
        "value": "nosniff"
      },
      {
        "name": "X-Firefox-Spdy",
        "value": "h2"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-frame-options",
        "value": "SAMEORIGIN"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-powered-by",
        "value": "HHVM/3.18.6-dev"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-search-id",
        "value": "esvan0r5bnnwscyk2wq09i1im"
      },
      {
        "name": "x-varnish",
        "value": "766019457, 417549316"
      }
    ]
  },
  "Request headers (665 B)": {
    "headers": [
      {
        "name": "Accept",
        "value": "*/*"
      },
      {
        "name": "Accept-Encoding",
        "value": "gzip, deflate, br"
      },
      {
        "name": "Accept-Language",
        "value": "en-US,en;q=0.5"
      },
      {
        "name": "Connection",
        "value": "keep-alive"
      },
      {
        "name": "Cookie",
        "value": "WMF-Last-Access=11-Jun-2019; WMF-Last-Access-Global=11-Jun-2019; mwPhp7Seed=5c9; GeoIP=US:NY:Port_Jervis:41.38:-74.67:v4"
      },
      {
        "name": "DNT",
        "value": "1"
      },
      {
        "name": "Host",
        "value": "en.wikipedia.org"
      },
      {
        "name": "Referer",
        "value": "https://www.wikipedia.org/"
      },
      {
        "name": "TE",
        "value": "Trailers"
      },
      {
        "name": "User-Agent",
        "value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Request headers

The Request headers section shows details about the request headers. For each line in the request headers section, a question mark links to the documentation for that request header, if one is available.

A Raw toggle button in the section heading controls whether the headers are shown with formatting, or as plain, unformatted text.

Cookies tab

This tab lists full details of any cookies sent with the request or response:

As with headers, you can filter the list of cookies displayed. The full list of cookie attributes is shown—see the following screenshot showing Response cookies with further attributes shown.

The samesite attribute has been shown since Firefox 62 (bug 1452715).

Params tab

This tab displays the GET parameters and POST data of a request:

Response tab

The complete content of the response. If the response is HTML, JS, or CSS, it will be shown as text:

If the response is JSON, it will be shown as an inspectable object:

If the response is an image, the tab displays a preview:

For network responses that are initiated by a WebSocket connection, the details pane shows any associated messages. For more information, see Inspecting web sockets.

Cache tab

If the response is cached (i.e. a 304), the Cache tab displays details about that cached resource.

These details include:

• Last fetched: The date the resource was last fetched
• Fetched count: The number of times in the current session that the resource has been fetched
• Data size: The size of the resource.
• Last modified: The date the resource was last modified.
• Expires: The date the resource expires.
• Device: The device the resource was fetched from (e.g. "disk").

HTML preview

If the response is HTML, a preview of the rendered HTML appears inside the Response tab, above the response payload.

Timings tab

The Timings tab provides information about how long each stage of a network request took, with a more detailed, annotated, view of the timeline bar, so it is easy to locate performance bottlenecks.

This tab can include the following sections.

Queued, Started, Downloaded

New in Firefox 72, we now show the following timings at the top of the Timings tab, making dependency analysis a lot easier:

• Queued: When the resource was queued for download.
• Started: When the resource started downloading.
• Downloaded: When the resource finished downloading.

Note: Future versions will also show this information when entries in the network monitor timeline graph are moused over (see bug 1580493).

Request Timing

The Request Timing section breaks a network request down into the following subset of the stages defined in the HTTP Archive specification:

Server Timing

New in Firefox 71, the Server Timing section lists any information provided in the Server-Timing header — this is used to surface any backend server timing metrics you've recorded (e.g. database read/write, CPU time, file system access, etc.).

The header takes a series of descriptions and durations, which can be anything you like. In the above screenshot for example, the highlighted request's Server-Timing header contains 4 items — data, markup, total, and miss.

Security tab

If the site is being served over HTTPS, you get an extra tab labeled "Security". This contains details about the secure connection used including the protocol, the cipher suite, and certificate details:

The Security tab shows a warning for security weaknesses. Currently it warns you about two weaknesses:

1. Using SSLv3 instead of TLS
2. Using the RC4 cipher

Stack trace tab

Stack traces are shown in the Stack Trace tab, for responses that have a stack trace of course.

Network Monitor Features

The following articles cover different aspects of using the network monitor:

• Toolbar
• Network request list
• Network traffic recording
• Performance analysis
• Throttling