So how do you debug the myriad of binary protocols that already exist today? How do you debug SSL services? For that matter, how do you perform more than curso

So how do you debug the myriad of binary protocols that already exist today? How do you debug SSL services? For that matter, how do you perform more than cursory debugging of HTTP services? Do you seriously sit there and carefully type out HTTP 1.1 compliant requests, along with requisite headers and maybe even cookies? Does that actually work for debugging complex issues, and does it really differ that substantially from the debugging one performs to see if a binary protocol service is up and accepting requests?