Re: [PLUG] capture browser request

[Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com]

> On 17 June, 2002, "Kyle Burton" <mortis@voicenet.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a way for me to capture the request that the browser sends?
>>> I run SuSE 7.3 - KDE 2.2.1.  The browser is Knoqueror.
[...]
>> The basic sequence of events I typicly use is to save the form to disk,
>> add a <base href="http://that.site/path/to/page/";>, change the form
>> action to point to localhost:8888, run "netcat -l -p 8888 < /dev/null",
>> load the html page, from disk, into the browser and submit it.  Netcat
>> should then capture the data that the browser would have sent to the
>> remote system.
>
> I've used programs like tcpdump and ngrep to monitor both ends of the
> conversation - the browser request and the server's response.  The
> output can be ugly, but you get the information that you need.

Coincidentally, the following just popped up on freshmeat:

  SPIKE 2.4

  SPIKE is an attempt to write an API that helps reverse engineer
  new,unknown network protocols. It features several working examples.

See http://freshmeat.net/projects/spike/?topic_id=822%2C43%2C836%2C150
and http://www.immunitysec.com/spike.html

The screenshot on the home page shows SPIKE analyzing an HTTP request....

When I get a spare moment, I'm definitely going to be checking
this out.

pls


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