[ILUG] How to trace messages from browser to server?

francois maillard fmaillard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 08:49:49 IST 2005


if you just want to see the tcp flow, consider using ethereal (packet 
sniffer)

2005/8/29, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > How can I find exactly what my browser (Firefox)
> > is sending to a web-server,
> > and what messages are sent back?
> 
> Do you mean the headers or the source or both? This will show you the
> headers in a side bar:
> 
> http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
> 
> I'm not totally sure how to get the exact source. One of my dislikes of
> firefox is that when you view source it has often been modified by 
> firefox.
> You could try something like
> 
> wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) 
> Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3" http://www.google.ie
> 
> Gavin
> 
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