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

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 19:44, Pete Lucuk wrote:
> Hello,
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> I am not subscribed on the mailing list so please email me back, thank you.
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> Can I and how do I run ethereal capturing *only* HTTP packets?
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> 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.
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> 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. :-(
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> Bottom line, is there any way to setup ethereal or tethereal so that non
> root users only capture HTTP traffic?

I'm not on ethereal-users, so I don't know if there was a discussion
there. What we need is an HTTP proxy that a user could run, and the
proxy could save the HTTP traffic to a file. Wiretap would need to
support this, and have a new WTAP_ENCAP type.

Thoughts?

--gilbert