[Tutor] Web client in Python

[Kevin Christy]

Thanks to all who responded. I will post the code once it gets the job done;
I am not getting successful logins, perhaps because of the cookie issue. The
HTTP server is generating a hidden, temporary session ID code that may be
the problem.

Kevin

> On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 10:02  PM, Kevin Christy wrote:
>
> > Is there a way that you know of to "log" my session so that I can see
> > what
> > actually happens behind the scenes (in other words, what the browser and
> > server are passing back and forth to each other)? That would help me
> > automate the process. Thanks!
>
> If you are using Unix (/Linux/OSX), there are two programs that are
> available to do exactly this:  tcpdump (captures summary of TCP packets)
> and tcpflow (captures the actual data those packets are carrying --
> inotherwords, probably more useful to what you want to do).
>
> It's pretty cool, you can just sit there and monitor port 80 on your (or
> actually anyone else's) machine, or any other port, or redirect it to a
> file, etc.  Very very instructive in showing exactly what HTTP messages
> are being passed along (GET/POST/COOKIE vars, etc) during your browser
> session.
>
> Can be used for Dark purposes, do not abuse this knowledge.  Search
> google for a download.  There is no doubt an equivalent program for Win
> systems if that is your preferred poison, do some hunting.
>
>
> Erik
>
>
>
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