Introduction
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This article explains how to obtain a HTTP trace. That is, to obtain the text that is send to the server and back when requesting a webpage. These tools are discussed:
| Name | Method | Language | Features | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wireshark | packet capture | C | medium | cross platform |
| Fiddler | WinInet / HTTP proxy | .NET | extensive | Windows |
| Httpdbg | HTTP proxy | C | simple | Unix |
| Burp Proxy | HTTP proxy | Java | extensive | cross platform |
| TCPWatch | port forward / HTTP proxy | Python | simple | cross platform |
An example dump:
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100106 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.7 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive If-Modified-Since: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:54:15 GMT If-None-Match: "1f7804a-2c-47db3be780fc0" Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:33:05 GMT Server: Apache/2 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: timeout=1, max=100 ETag: "1f7804a-2c-47db3be780fc0" Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
More tools: