python win32 and COM? for internet monitoring

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew Thorley
Greetings, I have a question I hope some one with more back ground can give me a little help with. I want to write a simple internet monitoring script for windows that watches out bound http traffic and keeps a list of all the site visited. I am thinking that I might be able to use pywin32 and

Re: python win32 and COM? for internet monitoring

2005-11-22 Thread Graham Fawcett
Matthew Thorley wrote: Greetings, I have a question I hope some one with more back ground can give me a little help with. I want to write a simple internet monitoring script for windows that watches out bound http traffic and keeps a list of all the site visited. I am thinking that I might

Re: python win32 and COM? for internet monitoring

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew Thorley
Graham Fawcett wrote: You might want to look into PCAP (a.k.a libpcap), which is the network-sniffing libary used by Ethereal, among other programs. Much more portable than COM, and there are Python wrappers for it, IIRC. You could also implement an HTTP proxy server in Python; Google