Why don't you use the size of the packets themselves. After all, your HTTP header also adds to the band width (but does not show in Content-Length response header.
As java would not let you sniff packets, you should use either C or C++ as you choose. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Deepak Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to develop a network bandwidth calculation program. i am a beginner > to this type of work. > > my strategy to do this is as follows:- > > 1. First sniffing the packets on a particular port ( for example if in > first phase, I want to calculate bandwidth only for HTTP packets, port 80 ) > 2. Extract the header and get the size information of the payload. > 3. Now calculating the bandwidth.. > > is this the correct approach? > Kindly give me some directions on it like: how can i proceed to do that > ,which language i should use (i am comfortable with java, c/c++ ) > > > Best Regards > Deepak Garg > B.Tech(CSE) > Amity University > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Debasish Ray Chawdhuri -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
