Questions tagged [http-logging]
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On-the-fly monitoring HTTP requests on a network interface?
For debugging purposes I want to monitor the http requests on a network interface.
Using a naive tcpdump command line I get too much low-level information and the information I need is not very clearly represented.
Dumping the traffic via tcpdump…
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Generic HTTP server that just dumps POST requests?
I am looking for a command line tool that listens on a given part, happily excepts every HTTP POST request and dumps it.
I want to use it for testing purposes, i.e. for testing clients that issue HTTP POST requests.
That means I am searching the…
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Can anybody recommend an HTTP debugging proxy?
I would like something that allows me to:
Inspect all HTTP(S) traffic between my computer and the Internet, including 127.0.0.1
Modify incoming or outgoing data
It would also be nice if it had a scripting subsystem for setting rules and events
I…
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Monitoring HTTPS traffic using tcpflow
I would like to use tcpflow to monitor https requests. I have read tutorials on how to monitor http traffic but when I connect to a host using https the output is garbled. I am using tcpflow in the following manner:
sudo tcpflow -s -c -i eth0 src or…
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Logging request headers in nginx
I want to log custom headers from clients requests. I have added "$http_my_header" to my log_format and it is logged nicely for POST requests. All GET request, on the other hand, a logged with empty value.
The example of GET request:
GET /pws…
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Logging incoming request to my nginx proxy server
I would like to log all incoming requests, before it hits my worker nodes.
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Monitoring outbound server http header information?
What tool / function can we use on our linux server running CentOS to monitor the http headers that are sent from our application to another application on a different server? Looking for http header monitoring from server to server. My issue is I…
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How to customize apache mod_sec log output?
I have an apache server which uses mod_security configuration. Those logs are further analyzed and sent out to OSSEC server for intrusion detection and monitoring.
That OSSEC server then sends those logs for normalization and advance correlation to…
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what should be the format of http logs of a proxy?
In this specific case I am using fabio and nginx and apache http proxy that just proxies requests to destinations.
Both the "Combined Log Format" and "Common Log Format" do not include where to a proxy request is redirected and if the client is…
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