Hi, Christian.
I've used wireshark a little bit, but I am far from expert. Would I have
trouble filtering out extraneous messages? Another way to say it, can I tell
wireshark to give me only messages to and from this particular ip and port?
Regards, Rick
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Christian Grothoff
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [libmicrohttpd] How to record messages
On 03/12/2013 03:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I am using an open source product (MIT Licensed) that consists of a large,
> complex outer application that communicates with a small, relatively simple
> inner application. It's the inner application I am really interested in.
> It's code looks very strong, but it's documentation is very weak.
>
> The outer application communicates with the inner engine through a REST
> interface. The inner engine uses libmicrohttpd to give it its web activity.
> I can put the inner engine through its paces by using the outer application.
> If I could capture the messages that are passed back and forth, I could
> understand the interface.
>
> Does libmicrohttpd have some switch I can throw to write all the messages it
> receives or sends to a file? Or alternatively, can you tell me where I
> should insert code to accomplish this?
>
> Regards, Rick
>
>
While adding code to do this would certainly be possible, I don't think this is
the way to do it.
If I were you, I'd use wireshark to grab the HTTP traffic on the network level
(works also for
loopback!) and you get complete information and a nice viewer on top of it ---
without writing any code!
Happy hacking!
Christian
