Title: Message
Hi,
Don't know if anyone
has done something similar before, as I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I
don't have to. Whether anyone has done such before, I could use some advice if
any.
I'd like to automate
some web configuration that occurs from Java applets making HTTP POST requests
to some ASP server script pages (I prefer this idea over GUI automation of the
Java applets to do the same configuration). I'd like to parse out the HTTP
request information & extract the URL and POST data from a script (like
Perl) instead of manually analyzing the HTTP requests to do the same. I was
thinking of parsing saved capture files in libpcap format from
Wireshark/Ethereal instead of real-time capture & parsing of the requests in
Perl and some libpcap library. Then I could (nearly) automate building a Perl
user agent script that would do the same web configuration.
It looks to be
feasible except that the saved capture file has non-ASCII garbled junk padded in
between the HTTP request/response body & the next HTTP request/response
header field. And this non-ASCII garbled junk has some ASCII characters in it
also. This part would be more troublesome to parse out.
So I was wondering
if someone has already done a similar HTTP request parsing framework that I
could use or if there is a way to save/extract (in Wireshark/Ethereal,
etc.) the HTTP requests as pure ASCII messages as defined in the RFCs
(without all the garbled junk in between) so that it would be easier to
parse.
Regards,
David
Luu