On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Leahy, Kevin wrote:
> I'm just looking at the Ethereal website and I have a question. I'm
> basically a junior java programmer and this low-level network technology is
> going to take me some time to wade through. I want to accomplish a
> particular task and if I can do it with EtherReal, I will put the time in.
> But I would prefer to know in advance if I'm barking up the right tree.
>
> I have a web application running within JBoss on a Linux box. The
> application uses Glue to publish a webservice. I want to snoop the
> webservice and be able to read the soap requests for a short period ( maybe
> 10 minutes ) to resolve a particular issue.
Ethereal doesn't (yet) handle SOAP data explicitly; the transactions would
show up as HTTP. You can still use the Follow TCP Stream feature to view
the SOAP requests as they appear on the wire.
BTW, Westbridge Technology has a modified version of Ethereal that does
handle SOAP explicitly:
http://www.westbridgetech.com/soapmonitordownload.html
I exchanged email with them a while back about merging their changes into
the main distribution.