Re: Retrieving payload

[Justin Robinson <csmjmr () bath ac uk>]

I'm using the pcap library to write the code, and I was under the impression 
that you could retrieve the payload from the captured packets?

On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 08:09, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
> On 07-14-2003, Justin Robinson wrote:
> > I'm writing some packet reading code that simply prints to stdin the HTTP
> > or NNTP conversations on an internet connection. I was wondering if I
> > could extract the payload information that shows the packet's contents
> > from the packet without worrying about the other headers?
> >
> > If not.... how can I get the HTTP information from a packet that is sent
> > using TCP/IP over Ethernet?
>
> AFAIK, tcpdump doesn't do this. try Google tcpflow, or ethereal "follow tcp
> stream" function.
>
> Yu-chung
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