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From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:58:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: HTTP proxy which prints HTTP in human readable form
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 04:47:08PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've to debug the HTTP traffic between Firefox and some kind of file
> management server to nail down a problem in the communication between
> them, perhaps based on the content of the cookies or other HTTP data;
> 
> ofc, I could watch the connection with tcpdump, but maybe there is some better
> HTTP-proxy-like tool in the /usr/ports which prints the HTTP in better human
> readable form... any ideas? thx
> 
> 	matthias

Try FireBug, a FireFox plugin documented in _Web Security Testing
Cookbook_ a book which I highly recommend. It converted me from
Konqueror to FireFox in about 30 seconds when I found out about
NoScript, another Firefox extension.