Re: Need to monitor HTTP traffic

[Pete Hicks <petong@jah.net>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 05:57:33PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>I've been working on a problem for several days, and need to create a 
>shortcut.  I've found a program called Ettercap, which lets me monitor 
>network connections, but I can't find a way to monitor HTTP connections from 
>my browser to a web site, which is what I really need to do.  (Unless I 
>missed something, which is possible after several days with almost no 
>sleep...)
>
>Is there a program that I can run on my system that can monitor traffic on a 
>port, including listing it?  I need to see the headers on HTTP requests and 
>responses to see what goes between my browser and the web site.
>

If you use firefox, check out the livehttpheaders project:

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/