Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Spidering 103: How to analyse HTTP traffic

Analysing HTTP traffic is useful for discovering the personality of Web-sites.

You can analyse HTTP traffic with the Firebug extension for Mozilla Firefox. If you need to pretend to be using Internet Explorer for some reason, you can use a User Agent Switcher.

Wireshark and tcpdump are also useful, but may be annoying when trying to analyse HTTPS and do not provide integration with your Web browser.

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