On Sunday 11 April 2004 4:08 am, Richard Hector wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 01:54:39AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone think how I can see the content of packets from a browser
> > running on my machine, which is posting a form back to a remote server
> > somewhere, using HTTPS?
>
> Can you write your perl program in the form of a proxy - so your browser
> connects to it in the clear, and it sends the requests on using ssl?
> Then you can either dump the traffic from your program, or sniff it
> ahead of the proxy in the normal way.
Hm, that's not a bad idea - I can set my browser to use "NULL" encryption
(which the real server won't accept :), and then turn it back into normal
DES/RSA on the proxy, connecting to the outside world.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
Antony.
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