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Re: validation of HTTP on the wire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Gordon-Schlosberg)
Thu Mar 30 18:24:44 2000
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:15:48 -0600
From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg <regs@nebcorp.com>
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In-Reply-To: <9D7F61B87714D31194530090276212441F412A@outback.internal.outbackinc.com>; from jchalfan@outbackinc.com on Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 04:06:35PM -0800
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[Jay Chalfant <jchalfan@outbackinc.com>]
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a tool that validates a web server's conformance to HTTP
> 1.0/1.1. We are using a 3rd party embedded web server in a system we are
> developing and we have evidence that it does not honor all of the requests
> it gets. (It appears to occassionally consume requests for linked elements
> in the original page.) The tool that I am thinking of would either process
> the output of a tool like tcpdump (packets generated by a separate user
> agent) or would operate as the user agent itself and simultaneously log
> requests/responses, possibly with header info.
>
> Any pointers are appreciated.
Hmmm, a combo user-agent logger would be very neat... perhaps someone will
hack such a thing into Mozilla. Going the tcpdump route, check out
Ethereal at ethereal.zing.org, nice graphical packet sniffer based on
libpcap with the ability to isolate individual tcp streams.
--
Ari there is no spoon
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