Re: [Tcpick-project] tcpick feature request

[Francesco S. <dus...@in...>]

Hello John,
What you have asked could be an interesting way to use tcpick, but I
don't think of this feature as internal of the program, but "external".
I mean tcpick could run easily like a web server, simply redirecting his
output to a netcat session in listening mode.
I think that in the next days i will develop a feature that should
sound like this: "exit from tcpick after connection <num> is reached".
Maybe it will added to the actual --pipe option.
The idea of this "sniffing http server" ;-) will be this:
 
# yes "tcpick --pipe server \"port 80\" | nc -l -p 8000" | sh
 
In that way you could connect to localhost:8000 with a normal browser to
see the files transmitted via http.
But there are two problems, a little one and a big one.
The little problem is that actually tcpick doesn't have a "exit when
connection <n> closes" function. So you will see only the first file,
but, be sure this is an option that will be added soon (in version
0.1.24 of course).
The BIG problem is that images will be non displayed in the browser if
they are "local" references. And maybe you will see on the browser
images themselves, instead of html documents.
Then, you could write a html page with an "auto-refresh" frame to have a
costant updated view of the http files.

-Francesco Stablum

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:54:45 -0400 (EDT) "John M. Harrison" wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I just downloaded tcpick. Nice program. 
> 
>   We serve several websites from this computer. It would be very nice
>   to
> have a browser window which showed the same things our customers are
> seeing as they are seeing them.
> 
>   In that way we could watch them as they access our site and make our
> site better.
> 
>   I bet some simple patch in tcpick could split the tcp stream and
>   make it
> available to a 2nd browser such as dillo or glinks. This 2nd browser
> would follow the remote browser's activities and allow us to see our
> customer's activities as they happen.
> 
>   I bet this could become a very useful tool.
> 
>   regards,
>   john


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