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Samuh
Samuh

Reputation: 36484

Tool to monitor HTTP traffic

I have an application on my iPhone which sends out Http requests; is it possible to look into the HTTP stream using some tool??

I use standalone version of (IEInspector's) HttpAnalyzer tool on my windows PC to monitor HTTP traffic from all processes including the apps on Android phone (thanks to android debug bridge interface). Is there a similar tool for OS X that I can use for iPhone apps? Is this even allowed?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7196

Answers (3)

zhi
zhi

Reputation: 19

You can use HTTP Catcher. It can monitor HTTP traffic without a computer and Wi-Fi.

Upvotes: 1

znq
znq

Reputation: 44973

To directly monitor the traffic you can use tools like Wireshark or tcpdump.

If you want to send 'fake' requests to a server or have a simple listening server running to receive requests from the iPhone you can use netcat and cURL. I've explained that case in a tutorial if that is sufficient for what you need. If not I recommend Wireshark, which has a GUI and is quite simple to understand.

Upvotes: 2

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943470

I use Charles for HTTP monitoring. It can hook into the standard OS X proxy settings (as used by Safari) so it should work fine with the iPhone emulator in the SDK.

Upvotes: 9

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