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That was quite a scare many of us had 4 days ago when our dearest web tool web-sniffer.net vanished from our lives with no warning.

At this point I really hope that in fact the site had been hacked (which is bad enough and I’d personally strangle the hackers and hang them out to dry!) and it simply took this long to recover. It seems to be on a new server, hopefully with much higher security.

So rejoice, web-sniffer.net is back online!

This incident however points out that nothing should be taken for granted and backup plans must always exist. It made me seek out alternatives, it also prompted me to try to develop my own tool to achieve a similar objective. It’s not ready and when it is I won’t make it public because I cannot sustain the heavy battering it may take (even if mine is not likely to be the best of its kind).

So now I’m reminded maybe I should show some tangible support to web-sniffer.net 🙂

A tool many of us in web development have grown to love dearly has ceased its existence: web-sniffer.net has been shut down and the domain is up for sale to the highest bidder.

Update: On June 26 web-sniffer.net returned! Joy and happy dance!

RIP web-sniffer.net

It is now being redirected to some horrible spammy site where one fears invasion of malware with every passing second, enough to make me scan my computer immediately upon exiting. Hopefully it’s just a spammy annoying site, but you never know these days.

Hey, you who took over web-sniffer.net! Shame on you for turning it into a stinking rotting block of spam!

RIP web-sniffer.net. Damn, I actually liked the UI.

I am sure I’ll find substitutes in abundance. But so far none have captured my fancy and none that I’ve tried have been a completely satisfying as web-sniffer.net had been.

Currently I’m test-driving urivalet.com and testuri.org.  They seem OK except neither provides the IP of the server where the tested URL is hosted. So I’ll keep looking.