Tracing HTTP Requests with Tcpflow

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  1. tcpflow

    TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:

    There seems to be an issue open for this https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/issues/58

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  3. ssldump

    ssldump - (de-facto repository gathering patches around the cyberspace)

    I recall seeing a thread somewhere saying tcpflow would not add this capability and they point people to ssldump [1][2] and even that has some limitations.

    [1] - https://github.com/adulau/ssldump

    [2] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssldump

  4. netpeek

    Layer 7 sniffer

    There is also netpeek[1] which has better filtering capabilities and UX overall. It supports ngrep like bpf filters which we found useful.

    1: https://github.com/darshanime/netpeek

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