app to look/view/inspect http traffic...

[bruce]

regarding tcpdump....

i'm testing the windows version of tcpdump... i have it running, and i see
traffic between my browser and the webserver. however, the results that i'm
seeing are apparently only giving me the top level of the website that is
being pointed to with the browser. is there a way to setup the tcpdump app
to actually get the full name of the page that is being targeted with the
browser???

-bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard Miller [mailto:Leonard.Miller at udlp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:36 AM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; perl-win32-users at listserv.ActiveState.com;
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Subject: Re: app to look/view/inspect http traffic...


ethereal
tcpdump

>>> "bruce" <bedouglas at earthlink.net> 06/09/04 01:37PM >>>
hi...

i'm trying to figure out what's going on with a site from my browser... does
anybody have/recommend a good "open source" app to see/review the http
traffic going back/forth between my box and the site's server...

my issue is that i can use a browser and i get the html/response within the
browser. when i try to emulate what the browser is doing, using
libwww/mechanize/etc... i get something different. in fact, when i try toto
insert what i believe to be the url/query into a browser url address, i get
a different response...

so i'm looking to actually try to see the http trafffic that goes back/forth
between my browser and the server to track down what's really being sent...

i'd prefer something that's quick/easy to setup and run, that produces a
reasonable output!!!

thanks...

-bruce