Simple method to capture HTTP input

[Al Byers]

Corey,

I have installed both tcpdump and ethereal, but if I read your message 
correctly, I don't need tcpdump because I am sending and receiving on 
the same server?

ethereal does not capture what I am looking for. Is that because i am 
sending and receiving on localhost and it is not accessing the eth0? Is 
there a way to have it catch that traffic?

Thanks,

-Al

Corey Edwards wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:55 -0700, Al Byers wrote:
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>>I would like to  grab the raw http input stream content coming into my 
>>server from various requests. Is there an easy way to do this? I would 
>>like to avoid socket programming if I can. The server is running ubuntu 
>>(breezy). I am comfortable with java and perl. I am generating the 
>>requests, so I can direct them to any port.
>>    
>>
>
>I would use tcpdump.
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>        # tcpdump -s 1500 -w port-80.dump -Unp port 80
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>I like to then wade through it using ethereal. Generally I don't use
>ethereal for the capture since I'm often working on a remote server, but
>can do live captures as well.
>
>Corey
>
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