Sniffing is an eavesdropping attempt which consists of capturing packets transmitted through a third party network and reading the data in search of confidential information.
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Capturing Traffic of a program using Fiddler
I tried to use a website's API, but I always become a ProtocolError (UnsafeHeaderParsing did not help me) so I decide to capture the traffic of a program which is using that API, so that I know which attributes I have to set in the Header/POST...The…

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Stop sniffing after X seconds (instead of X packets)
I know I can do this with scapy:
sniff(count=10)
to sniff 10 packets.
How would I go about sniffing for 10 seconds instead in python? Can scapy do this itself or do I need to wrap it some other method to handle that?

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Sniff packets forwarded by ProxyCap
I'm communicating with a socket server, using TOR, through a SOCKS5 proxy configured with ProxyCap (Hostname 127.0.0.1, port 9150).
My aim is to sniff the packets sent by the socket server. I tried to use Scapy sniff function but I only get packets…
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Setcookie > sniff > output on same page
I wonder if someone can help shed some light on this:
I drop a cookie if a user arrives to the site with a specific key/value in query string. i.e.: http://www.somesite.com?key=hmm01
The cookie code exists at top of the template before

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is there any App in iOS we can get the List of URL being hit by some other app?
i was wondering is there any app in iOS which can get the list of URL being hit by other app installed on the same device

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Find out the caller and the called service in a Linux machine
I have a system which has multiple Java, C++ and Python services calling each other for getting various tasks done. It is a nearly 20 year old system that I have inherited.
Now, when I debug issues, I find it tough to identify which client is…

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Extract useful data from wireshark/tcpdump
I'm trying to extract data from gathered packages (tcpdump/wireshark). If I go to a website, all I can capture are the headers, but not the content of the webpage. Example:
Tcpdump:
17:34:51.861910 IP HackMachine-G51J.47928 > 50.6.246.185.http:…

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capture packets for a specific app on Android
I want to capture the network packets for a specific app on Android (4.1 or later) emulator. Since I do not know which ports the target app will open, tcpdump, wireshark may not be able to do this. iptables can make log for specific UID, while each…
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Mac OS X: watch network traffic (f.e. handle loading url action in Google chrome)
I need to sniff my traffic.
I've found some related posts:
Monitor Network Traffic Mac
How to get network adapter stats in linux/Mac OSX?
And I've had a look at the MenuMeters project
But it implements only common information about traffic: amount…

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Actual packet generation using scapy
I am trying to generate packet using Scapy as :
send(IP(dst="151.189.13.35", src="192.168.0.103")/UDP(sport=5555, dport=53))
Result shows: Sent 1 packet. But I want to know whether this packet is being sent to given destination address, why it is…

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How to sniff Ion library request to rest server
I'm using Fiddler2 for checking and sniffing my apps request to rest server, It's work perfectly.
But in my last app I'm using Ion Library for Asynchronous Networking and Image Loading. When I create any request ( as POST -or- GET ), I can't monitor…

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OS X Scapy Promiscuous Mode
I am using scapy to try to list all of the http host headers sent on my network. The code I currently have is this:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages")
import re
from scapy.all import *
import…

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How to automate logging in and retrieve data?
I want to automate logging into a website and retrieving certain data.
I thought the way to do this would be to sniff the HTTP requests so I know where the login form is being POSTed to so I can do the same using NodeJS/Java/Python.
However I can't…

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program to know list of attached devices to my linux laptop
I am writing a small apllication that will tell list of attached devices to my linux laptop.There is one utility that is udev that can be used for hot plugging but is their some other way where i can write simple c program where it will tell that…

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Deep Packet Inspection in C#
Apart from sniffing packets I presume, how can deep packet inspection be done with C#?
Deep packet inspecting in order to find spoofed IPs or proxies and network security.
I cannot find any articles or related websites to this topic for c# so…

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