python win32 and COM? for internet monitoring

Matthew Thorley ruach at chpc.utah.edu
Tue Nov 22 13:05:52 EST 2005


Graham Fawcett wrote:
> You might want to look into PCAP (a.k.a libpcap), which is the
> network-sniffing libary used by Ethereal, among other programs.  Much
> more portable than COM, and there are Python wrappers for it, IIRC.
> 
> You could also implement an HTTP proxy server in Python; Google should
> turn up numerous existing implementations.
> 
> Graham
> 

Thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.

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Matthew



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