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A software or a piece of computer hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network or part of a network

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Wireshark localhost traffic capture

I wrote a simple server app in C which runs on localhost. How to capture localhost traffic using Wireshark?
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Sniffing an Android app to find API URL

I'm curious as to how I could figure out the API URL an Android application (any app I have installed) uses if it makes API calls to some online server (a RESTful service for example). I presume I have to capture packets on the device and maybe…
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iPhone and WireShark

How can I sniff packets from my iPhone on my network? can someone give me some instructions? I tried Googling, but nothing teaches how to sniff iPhone packets、 I am on windows.
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Sniffer for localhost (Windows OS)

I am looking for a sniffer that can work with the loopback address in Windows. So far, I found Microsoft Network Monitor which is a nice tool, but for localhost it's useless because on Windows, localhost packets don't pass through the regular…
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Bluetooth sniffer - preferably mac osx

I am trying to find a bluetooth packet sniffer to capture bluetooth signals from close by devices. I would like for this application to work on mac osx. I have had difficulty finding anything at all so my requirements are low right now - something…
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How to test which version of TLS my .NET client is using?

I support a .NET site which (amongst many, MANY, other things) talks to remote APIs from supplier systems. We want to upgrade to support TLS 1.2 We're hoping to do so as per this question: Are there .NET implementation of TLS 1.2? But how do I check…
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How to sniff packets on Mac OS 10.7 Lion?

I'm developing a website that uses SSL (connction to https) and I want to confirm that all the data sent is encrypted. Could anyone give me a good free packet sniffer on Mac OS that I could use? Thanks!
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Capture network traffic programmatically (no root)

I'm trying to find resources or library which could permit me to capture the traffic of all the network packets of a device programmatically either it be from wifi or mobile network. I believe there no need to be root to be in this promiscuous mode…
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How to intercept packets sent by an application and check their header and content?

I'd like to know how can I intercept packets sent by a certain application and then to check what those packets contain. I need some advice what to do because I've never done such a thing and I want to learn by myself.
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scapy get packet's arrivals time

Is there a way to get the packet's arrivals time using scapy? Using scapy to read the pcap file and I want to know all the packet's arrivals time because as we know wireshark can see it. So I guess there must be a way. Anyone know?
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Is there an API for Wireshark, to develop programs/plugins that interact with it/enhance it?

Googling didn't give me great results. Is there any sort of API for Wireshark that abstracts away from the main source code so we can develop programs that interact with it and deal with the data it provides? edit: I appreciate the suggestions for…
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pcap_loop and pcap_dispatch Difference

What exactly is the difference between pcap_loop and pcap_dispatch?
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Strange RAW Socket on Mac OS X

When i run a simple packet sniffer coded in C on my Mac OS X, i got no output at all, this is a strange thing! can someone help me to understand what going on. #include #include #include #include…
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c# - how to sniff packets in an app without relying on WinPCap?

BACKGROUND: I now understand how to write a C# application that can monitor packets going in/out of the network card on the PC the application is running on. The approach I know relies on http://www.winpcap.org/ being already installed on the PC…
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Scapy packet sniffer triggering an action up on each sniffed packet

I'm using scapy with python to sniff live traffic. capture=sniff(iface="", filter="tcp") But this sniffs each packet and adds it to the list capture which can be processed later. I want to process a packet and display few fields of…
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