Re: Sniffing submitted webpage form

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/27/03


Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:18:27 -0400


Any of them.

You might want to search www.google.com for the Windows port of dsniff which
contains urlsnarf and another utility which lets you watch HTTP sessions
[though not sure if all of the utilities included in dsniff show the post or
not]

Windump, TCPdump and ethereal all should let you decode into text.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#sniffer

"Karim" <karim3411@!!yahoo!!.com> wrote in message
news:183sm0apr1p69.erq3yve8prcl$.dlg@40tude.net...
>
> I am trying to find out what a web browser sends in a post request to a
web
> site. I have used a few packet sniffers but all the packets that display
> comprehensible text are packets coming from the website. If I search in
the
> packets just before the one showing 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK...', I can't find
out
> what the url and post arguments the browser used. Is this info encoded?
The
> connection is not using SSL.
> Anyone can recommend a sniffer that shows packets from my computer to a
web
> server in *text*. Or my basic question is how to sniff the contents of a
> web page form submitted to a web server?
>
>
> --
> Karim
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since
> 1998



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