HTTP Logging: How to enable?

[andybrucenet]

I need to enable HTTP logging in the browser. I need both HTTP headers and data.

I can't use a typical port sniffing solution because I'm debugging an HTTPS data stream.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated. I'm sure that M$ has a secret registry switch that can be created and switched on.

Thanks!

 

[Marcs41]

No, you could use a proxy to log that. A browser does not log all that. If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[andybrucenet]

The problem is, going through a proxy the data is still encrypted. I know that microsoft must have a way of logging incoming/outgoing HTTP data for their own debugging purposes. What I need to find out is how they enable it.

 

[Marcs41]

A proxy does not encrypt, the app does. So if you would log everything, it will be there. If however you did the encrypting, you should be able to decrypt? If the solution is here, let us know it was helpful so others can benefit from it as too

 

[andybrucenet]

Well, after downloading numerous browsers (around 7), several different types of sniffers (including ettercap) I tried downloading a couple of proxies and building/running them. I could only get HTTP data logged. Problem with HTTPS proxy is that it doesn't have the unencrypted incoming and outgoing data; it just is a man-in-the-middle between the app and the server. Unless I just missed something obvious...

FWIW: Mozilla and Lynx both offer HTTP header tracing (for HTTP and HTTPS pages). But neither of them supported the weird syntax used by the page I'm trying to analyze. I finally solved the problem by brute force and guessing what the HTTPS header should be.