I use a couple of different products, depending on what I'm doing and
what's nearby. My primary tool is Sniffer Pro but, as Dave mentioned,
SilkPerformer will do just fine. I think I mentioned this too in a
previous response. I've got the meat of things captured and decoded to
text but, there are some encrypted bits and offsets to define and parse.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 8, 2000 11:52 am
Subject: RE: (OT) HTTP watcher
> > OK, this is a bit off topic, but I need something for an
> > experiment in CF. Let me first describe a situation and then
> > ask if anyone knows of any software to do it:
> > A browser makes a request to a website and a website returns
> > information. The request from the browser has the Url, Form,
> > CGI and other information all together. The response from the
> > website has the page content as well as all its header
> > information. What I want to do is have a third piece of
> > software that will be able to see EVERYTHING being passed
> > back and forth between the browser and server in plain text.
> > That is, when the request goes through, I want to see the
> > entire request and when the page comes back, I want to see
> > the entire page. Now, does anyone know of any software that
> > does this?
>
> Sure. You have lots of options.
>
> As Steve Bernard mentioned, you can monitor traffic with a network
> sniffer.This'll capture everything. The difficulty here is that
> you'll generally
> have to put the info together yourself to a degree, which will
> require a
> little labor on your part.
>
> Alternatively, you could set up a recording proxy, which would be
> a little
> more work up front, but less work when trying to read the content.
> There are
> lots of options for recording proxies. You could use Perl to do
> this -
> there's a Perl script which does this for HTTP request and
> response headers.
> You could probably modify these quickly so that they capture HTTP
> bodies as
> well. It's available at:
>
> http://www.compansr.demon.co.uk/
>
> You could install the recording proxy on the client, or on a separate
> machine. I'll bet that there are lots of other recording proxy options
> available, although I haven't looked too hard, since I can use
> SilkPerformer's recording option for this.
>
> Actually, come to think of it, there's another one, a Delphi
> program, called
> Stretch:
>
> http://www.kestral.com.au/devtools/stretch/
>
> I've never actually used it, but I recall that it's supposed to record
> headers and bodies, and will probably suit you fine.
>
> You could probably use something as simple as Netcat as well,
> although I
> think you'd need to run multiple copies - one to capture HTTP
> requests,another to return the response back to the client. The
> recording proxy
> option is easier.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
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