A way to see full exchange between http clinet and server?

Hi,

I need to see full dialogue between a browser and a web server in order
to emulate the browser requests for later use, however I do not know an
easy way to make it (except tcpdump, and it is useless with https).

Is there a way to see all headers/cookies/form data a browser sends to
a given web site via http and https without monitoring the IP traffic?
May I ask IE/Nestscape/Mozilla/Konqueror to show all they send?

Thanks, George

The short answer is no... however you can run a sniffer on a network card
and store all that goes through it. Anything encrypted would be encrypted...
http and https work on different port numbers.

Why do you want to emulate the browser requests for later use ? You may want
to read up on CGI - Common Gate Interface at this address for a few clues
http://www.w3.org/


"G. Georgiev" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:HRIAc.116471$(E-Mail Removed). ..
> Hi,
>
> I need to see full dialogue between a browser and a web server in
order
> to emulate the browser requests for later use, however I do not know an
> easy way to make it (except tcpdump, and it is useless with https).
>
> Is there a way to see all headers/cookies/form data a browser
sends to
> a given web site via http and https without monitoring the IP traffic?
> May I ask IE/Nestscape/Mozilla/Konqueror to show all they send?
>
> Thanks, George

G. Georgiev <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I need to see full dialogue between a browser and a web server in
> order to emulate the browser requests for later use, however I do not
> know an easy way to make it (except tcpdump, and it is useless with
> https).

You could use tcpflow (though that won't decrypt https).

If you're using Firefox or Mozilla, there is an extention called HTTP
Headers (at least, I think that is what it is called), that shows you
what headers are being sent/received.

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