sniff http packets for get and post requests from an application

Question

Iam coding a SEO tool in C# for doing keyword research. I need to make calls to google adword keyword tool. Now I know some tools which are doing the same already.

I just need to decipher what they are doing. I tried using wireshark but its very complex to get the actual post data etc using wireshark.

I tried using fiddler on IE but seems too many javascript requests are made which confuse fiddler a lot.

If I can just find out the exact requests the other tool is making I think my job is done.

Do you guys know any alternate tools other than wireshark which would work on a non browser based application and sniff http data and report in legible format. Wireshark data is too complex to understand and replicate it seems.

Answer 1

You will have to use some sort of network sniffer if you want to get at this sort of data and you're likely to run into the same problem (pulling out the relevant data from the overall network traffic) with those that you do now with Wireshark.

Answer 2

Put http.request.method == "POST" in the display filter of wireshark to only show POST requests. Click on the packet, then expand the Hypertext Transfer Protocol field. The POST data will be right there on top.