[Ethereal-users] RE: [Ethereal-dev] run ethereal capturing *only* HTTP???

["Pete Lucuk" <petel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please read below........


-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:15 PM
To: Pete Lucuk
Cc: 'ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx' Users
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] run ethereal capturing *only* HTTP???


On Jan 8, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Pete Lucuk wrote:

> I am a doing some HTTP/SOAP/XML development and would KILL to be able 
> to see the HTTP stream going back and forth between my Java servlet 
> and web browser/toolbar at work, doing some heavy duty stuff.

Are there two machines involved, or just one?

I.e., is your Web browser running on a different machine from the 
machine running the Java servlet?

[Pete] 

yes, the browser runs on a MS box, the servlet engine runs on Solaris box

If so, then:

> But, the Solaris admin on the box will not let me run ethereal cuase I 
> can sniff all the traffic going in and out of the box.  We still use 
> telnet, rlogin, etc. instead of ssh.

...is the Solaris box the one running the servlet?

[Pete] 

yes, the servlet engine runs on Solaris box

And, if so, is the browser running on some desktop machine where the 
admin doesn't get to say what software you run?

If so, you might try running Ethereal on *that* machine, instead.

[Pete] 

Yeah, I have already tried to convince admin to let me put it on my windows
box but they are up tight about that too.

Ideally hoping that there is a config item or I can play with source

Thank you for the quick follow up