[BangPypers] how to read remote uploads

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18 2010, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
> > Or just use tcpdump as
> >
> > $ sudo tcpdump  -A 'port 9000'
> >
> > on the machine where you want to capture the data.
>
> [...]
>
> I've not used tcpdump but wouldn't this give you a TCP packet level
> dump? Would not netcat (netcat -l 9000) be more appropriate for textual
> data (which is, I assume, what the GPS device sends out).
>
> -A gives you a (ascii) text dump, which is pretty useful for capturing HTML
pages for example. This works very well for quick captures to debug
your local web server for example.


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