A wealth of information as always. Thank you very much!
At 10:54 AM 4/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > Question 1: Are there any utilities that allow me to
> > monitor the outgoing traffic on my machine? Something
> > along the lines of "The machine sent X request to X
> > IP / port." I figure I can run the program and see
> > where it is going.
>
>Yes, there are many, many programs that can do this. If you have Windows NT
>or 2000, you can install the Network Monitor program that comes with the OS.
>Or, you can use one of these:
>
>Ethereal: http://www.ethereal.com/ (free, open-source, requires the winpcap
>driver)
>CommView: http://www.tamos.com/products/commview/
>
>You might just want to poke around on the winpcap site and see what's there.
>The winpcap driver allows you to run lots of tools traditionally found only
>on Unix, like tcpdump:
>http://winpcap.polito.it/
>
>With these sorts of programs, you'll see all activity on your network card,
>and if your network card is running in promiscuous mode, you'll see all
>activity on your network segment. This can be a little overwhelming. If you
>just want to find out what ports are being used on your machine, you can go
>to a command prompt and type "netstat -a". You can even pipe output to a
>text file, and have that happen every second: "netstat -a 1 > myip.txt".
>This won't actually tell you what's being sent or received, and unless
>you're using XP it doesn't tell you which programs are using which ports,
>but it lets you know what ports are being used, and you could then just
>interrogate those ports yourself - if you're connecting to some server's
>port 21, it's probably an FTP server.
>
> > Question 2: Is there a way to automate a GUI program? (
> > Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a GUI program in the
> > first place? ).
>
>This depends on the specific GUI program, generally, in that some GUI
>programs may expose COM automation interfaces. Also, there's an interesting
>new product out there which allows you to automate GUI programs. It's called
>Digital Cortex, from Anysoft. I know some of the people over there, as they
>used to work for Allaire. This may be overkill for what you want, but who
>knows?
>http://www.anysoft.com/products/developer/index.asp
>
>Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
>http://www.figleaf.com/
>voice: (202) 797-5496
>fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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