Re: HTTP support in libpcap

["Ian McDonald" <ian.mcdonald () jandi co nz>]

On 10/29/06, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
> abakash wrote:
>
> > I am new to libpcap and just want to know whether libpcap has got any
> > http support in it i.e. whether I can extract http header information
> > from any packet.
>
> You can, if you choose, write code to extract HTTP header information
> from any TCP segment captured by libpcap that contains HTTP header
> information and that was captured with a "snapshot length" long enough
> to contain the header information in question.
>
> Libpcap, however, won't do it for you; you will have to do it yourself.
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libtrace from our research group might be able to help:
http://research.wand.net.nz/software/libtrace.php

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