Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Sniffing HTTP and HTTPS requests

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From: "Robert Casto" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:15:42 -0500
I am trying to sniff HTTP and HTTPS request so I know what page is
requested. The reason for doing this is that the web server is too busy
to log the requests itself. The performance goes way down when logging
is turned on. 

I can get the HTTP packets and see the headers and find out what page
was requested. I then write that information to a log and thus I have
the information I need. The problem is that HTTPS delivers encrypted
packets and I can not see what page was requested. Is there any way to
find out the URL that was requested on the server?

Robert Casto 
Tel (513) 755-2221 
Cell (513) 349-5282 
robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
http://www.cincijava.com