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Steven Butler
Steven Butler

Reputation: 11

HTTP/SOAP packet size

I am trying to determine how much network overhead there is for web services. From research I know that UDP has a header size of 24 bytes plus the data. So if I wanted to send the message foo over UDP to listener the packet would be 27 bytes. If I wanted to call a method on a web service and pass it foo how much more data gets added to the packet?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 472

Answers (1)

Pat
Pat

Reputation: 1776

On linux, you could use iftop for that. Suppose your webservice listens on udp port 9999, then following command tells you how many bytes pass over the network:

iftop -nN -f "port 9999 and udp"

If you're using windows, I guess wireshark could help to do the counting.

Upvotes: 1

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