Hello.
I have been trying to use a sniffer to save in a file all the http
conections, I'm only interested in the HTML code of each connection, but I
don't know how can I do it.
I've been using tcpdump and ethereal under Suse Linux 10.1.
Can I with those programs running in backgraund get all the HTML content and
log it in a file?

Thank you very much.

Adrián Ribao wrote:

Yes you can. Put a sniffer pc with ethereal and set it up to log all http
traffic. You can configure a switch to "port mirror" or use a hub (not a
switch!) Make sure you configure it to save 100% of the packet (by default
I think it save just a couple of bytes of the application layer). I would
offer two pieces of advice:

1) Have lots of disk space
2) Only sniff http traffic to minimize things (disk space, interface
throughput)

I hope that helps,
Imhotep

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Thank you.
I have done that before, but my problem is get the HTML content from the
captured data. One soultion would be to save the data in XML format and
then apply XSLT. But I was wondering if is there any better way.
I don't care about the package info and all that stuff, I'm only interested
in the HTML data.
Thank you very much!


imhotep wrote:

Ok, I will. I hope I could do it.
See you.

Adrián Ribao wrote:

It sounds like you want to reconstruct the http data yes? Humm...good
question. I have not gone that deep with the sniffer but I am sure there is
way....try posting to one of the linux/ethereal groups...also, post back
your results. You have made me curious...

Imhotep

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