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Re: Need a tool to monitor HTTP traffic

From: Wei Weng <wweng_at_kencast.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:38:25 -0500

Daniel Haude wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm trying to get through a https/POST login form with libcurl.
> Unfortunately I can't get it to work, but the same login works fine with
> any browser I've tried, including links and lynx (so there are no tricks
> with javascript or images).
>
> What I need is a tool which somehow goes between a browser or my curl
> app and the server so that I can monitor what's actually being sent back
> and forth, and how the communication between the server and a browser
> that works differs from what goes on between the server and my app.
>
> Argh -- while I was typing I realized that this is an SSL connection. A
> tool outside the client will not be useful. So let me rephrase my
> request: I need an http client that can log the http traffic. I already
> looked at Lynx's -trace option, but that seems to burp up the entire
> internal state of the HTML parser, so it's not so useful.
>
> Maybe I'll have to hack some browser, but first I want to look if
> something like this is available.
>
> Thanks for any tips,
> --D.
>
>
I used a tool called HTTPLook.

HTH.

Wei
Received on 2005-01-26