Proxy tool for beginners

[markgargan]

Hi folks,

I was learning what I think was apache a couple of years ago. Bundled with the server was a small app that bound itself on a port. It listened for requests and output the requests before forwarding the request to the actual appserver.

It was beginners facility for having a look at the kind of information being passed too and from the server.
Does anyone know what it is and where I could find it?

Thanks again,
Mark.

 

[tchatzi]

what exactly are you looking for?


``The wise man doesn't give the right answers,
he poses the right questions.''
TIMTOWTDI

 

[markgargan]

Some application that stands between the Client and the
server. It's like a server itself that intercepts requests and
then forwards them to the server.

If I remember correctly it's port number was around 5050 or
something like it.

I'm looking to intercept the requests and build up a conversation between the client and the server that I can
replay with httpUnit.

Thanks,
Mark.

 

[NullTerminator]

The apache axis project contains a simple tcp monitoring tool thats light weight and very handy for capturing http conversations. I can listen on multiple ports at once and forward to differnent hosts

You only need the axis.jar and a simple command line like below. You can also start listining via the UI that starts up

8080 is the port tcpmon listens to on whatever box you start it up on. It then forwards to realhost at port 80 or whatever you want.

%java_home%\bin\java -cp path_to\axis.jar org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon 8080 realhost 80

Its primitive but cheap.

 

[markgargan]

Nullterminator,

That's the very tool I was looking for!! Thank you so much. Do you know if the source is available for this tool?

Thanks,
Mark.

 

[NullTerminator]

The source should be available since axis is part of the apache project.

try

http://apache.bestwebcover.com/ws/axis/1_2/

for d/l

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[markgargan]

Cheers NullTerminator I got it down.
Thanks again for your help.

Mark.