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Posted by imhotep on June 25, 2006, 12:09 pm
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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:
>
>> Adrián Ribao wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
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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