The FlashChemist!

AMF Explorer is an  AMF data viewer which can be used to view the deserialized AMF requests and responses. The addon lets you see the requests and responses in the ‘Net’ panel of Firebug. You need to have Firebug addon installed in your Firefox.

Here are the URLs.

Addon Page

Home Page

This lets you see the AMF data as you used to (I used to) see using the Charles HTTP proxy application. Charles is not free and the evaluation version shuts down in every 10 minutes or so. Give it a try. Its still version 0.6 so more features may be pending.

Update: Few screen shots.

Here is a cool utility that bakes into your OS file explorer. The utility is an OS extension and once installed you can (on windows) right click on a file and select ‘Properties’, which gives you an additional tab called ‘File Hashes’, which has different hashes of the file. On Mac select “File Hashes” (on 10.5 the “File Hashes” menu item will be found under the “More” submenu). HashTab supports many hash algorithms such as MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool. Hashtab is supported as a Windows shell extension and a Mac Finder plugin.

Hash values are used to check the file integrity when you transfer files over a protocol, or after zipping and unzipping the same.

Download the utility here.