Monitoring HTTP on-the-fly
On my day to day work sometimes I have to discover what request are really pushed to my web servers without digging into access logs. So I found some handy tools.
console ready:
- http://justniffer.sourceforge.net/ - pretty nice multi purpose sniffer with http support
- http://dumpsterventures.com/jason/httpry/ - packet sniffer for http traffic
- http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html - comes from wireshark tool
- http://www.circlemud.org/jelson/software/tcpflow/ - multi purpose sniffer with convenient file store format
- http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/ - it is not a sniffer, but it shows us source,amount, tcp state of traffic
- http://www.tcpdump.org/ - of course
gui ready:
- http://www.wireshark.org/ - with remote capture http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup#Step_5:_Capture_traffic_using_a_remote_machine
gui but with capturing http traffic from end user perspective:
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