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Sniffing traffic between a Flex app and ColdFusion backend

What is a good strategy for sniffing/tracing function calls between a Flex application and a ColdFusion-based backend running on ColdFusion server? I understand they use AMF protocol. I'm used to using Fiddler to sniff transactions between HTTP clients and servers, and it works great as long as you're using plain text or XML HTTP reques...

How to sniff usb port under Windows?

From time to time I need to dump usb traffic under windows, mostly to support hardware under Linux, so my primary goal is to produce dump files for protocol analysis. For USB traffic, it seems that SniffUsb is the clear winner... It works under XP and has much nicer GUI than earlier versions. It produce huge dump files, but everything i...

Sniffing network traffic for signs of viruses/spyware

How can I connect a system to a network and sniff for virus/spyware related traffic? I'd like to plug in a network cable, fire up an appropriate tool sand have it scan the data for any signs of problems. I don't expect this to find everything, and this is not to prevent initial infection but to help determine if there is anything tryin...

Berkley packet filter for Windows

Hi is Berkley Packet Filter supported on Windows or is there something comparable which I should use. Best Regards ...

How to print out the HttpWebRequest in C#?

I'm having a problem with a POST I'm doing using the HttpWebRequest object from C#. In order to analyze the problem I would like to know exactly what is being sent over the wire. The problem is that I'm also using HTTPS so I can't sniff the wire. I need some way of printing out to the Console all the relevant information of the HttpWebRe...

Could anyone suggest a good packet sniffer class for c++?

Could anyone suggest a good packet sniffer class for c++? Looking for a easy insertable class I can use in my c++ program, nothing complicated. ...

In C# how could I listen to a COM (Serial) Port that is already open?

I am using a program that talks to my COMM port, but I have made another program that I want to "sniff" the comm port messages and perform it's own actions against those messages in addition. Is this possible in .NET c#? ...

How can I inspect form data being Posted?

I am reverse engeneering an app and I need to see what is in the post data without viewing the form source, is a there a decent app/plugin to see what is being posted? Any Browser on Windows I'm looking for something other then packet sniffing. ...

Packet sniffing in Python (Windows)

Hi all, What is the best way to sniff network packets using Python? I've heard from several places that the best module for this is a module called Scapy, unfortunately, it makes python.exe crash on my system. I would assume that it's just a problem with how I installed it, except that many other people have told me that it doesn't wor...

Modem connected via USB: sniffing of "AT commands" possible?

Hi guys, can somebody confirm if I can use USB sniffing to capture the "AT commands" sent to an HSDPA modem from an external application? ...

Windows packet capture software development kit

I am trying to port a packet sniffer from Linux to windows and am having trouble finding an appropriate API to the Ethernet device on Windows. I don't want to use WinPcap because I don't want to have to install WinPcap on the target machines. Is there an alternative which I can use which still provides a relatively easy interface. If it'...

Why is browser sniffing so bad?

You hear it all over the place: using javascript to sniff the user agent string to detect browser versions is a Very Bad Thing. The latest version of jQuery has now deprecated its $.browser object in place of $.support. But what should I do if there's a bug or problem which is only affecting IE and not the other browsers, and I'm not sur...

Which .NET library / wrapper do you recommend for sniffing packets ?

As far as I understand all sniffing libraries in .NET just a wrapper around WinpCap, which is OK. If you know any other better option please write as answer. Have you used any of them? Which one is the best according to your experience? I'm only looking for libraries which have commercial friendly licenses, Also commercial libraries ar...

How to determine what URL a closed source piece of software is connecting to? (OSX)

Usually I'd use Wireshark, but is there a really super quick way to determine what URL an app is pulling data from? I need to whitelist the host so that it works through a proxy server, as the app doesn't support proxies. ...

Free tools for local HTTP packet sniffing/intercepting?

I'm currently using HTTP Analyzer V5 trial version which expires very soon. Are there any [good] free tools for sniffing and inspecting the contents of HTTP packets, in a similar way to the above mentioned tool? ...

Sniffing LPT Traffic

I need to intercept LPT output traffic. After a couple of hours of research, I've come to understand that the only way to do this is by writing a kernel-mode driver, more precisely a "filter driver"...? I've downloaded the WDK, but the terminology and vast number of driver types is a little overwhelming. I'm basically trying to underst...

network monitoring on windows mobile 6

Hi there I am currently trying to write a network monitoring software for windows mobile 6. I googled a lot and some people say that it is not possible to use a NDIS driver or WinPcap or so for monitoring any network interface. Others say that it is possible. Fact is, that I found no exaples, nor any sourcecode on the net. Therefore I...

Sniffing/capturing all traffic between Apache and Weblogic on Solaris

We have an application where an embedded device talks to weblogic via Apache. Weblogic and Apache are on the same Solaris server, and we are using the weblogic module for Apache. The communication works over http It does not work over https, although the problem does not appear to be directly related to https (the SSL session is negoti...

jQuery.browser is deprecated, but how do you use .support?

On my web page, I have this CSS: tr:hover { background-color: #f0f; } Which works nicely in all browsers except for good ole IE. I know that I can just write some jQuery to add and remove a class on mouse over/out, but I'd prefer not to handicap (albeit ever so slightly) all the other browsers which support :hover properly - so I ...

Detect H.323 by simple sniffing?

Is it possible to detect if a H.323 connection (phone call) is up by simple sniffing traffic on an adjacent node? ...