sniffing btw my web browser and a server

[Cameron Laird]

In article <92aush$rhc$1 at news.nuri.net>,
June Kim <junaftnoon at nospamplzyahoo.com> wrote:
>I'm doing some sort of web client programming, and have to observe the
>messages that my browser and web-servers transmit, being tired of guessing
>what the messages'd be and looking up the references and the specifications.
>
>Anyone has done it in Python or knows how it could be done?
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>June
>
>ps. using TCP/IP packet sniffers made for mere hacking seems too primitive
>or low-level in this case.
No.  I don't know of a Python answer to what I understand
to be your question.  There's a quite nice Tcl-based sol-
ution:
<URL:http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/net/sockspy-1.0/1.0/sockspy-1.0.README>

Do you want Py-written Web proxy servers and clients?  Would
it be enough (or best) for you to learn how to instrument
the server and client you're using so they report on their
own dialogues?

I'm sympathetic with your sentiment that conventional packet-
sniffers are too crude.
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