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How to capture all the HTTP packets using tcpdump


It can be done by ngrep

ngrep -q -d eth1 -W byline host stackoverflow.com and port 80        ^  ^       ^         ^               |  |       |         |       |  |       |         |       |  |       |         v       |  |       |         filter expression       |  |       |                |  |       +-->  -W  is set the dump format ("normal", "byline", "single", "none")       |  |       |  +---------->  -d  is use specified device instead of the pcap default       |       +------------->  -q  is be quiet ("don't print packet reception hash marks")


Based on what you have mentioned, ngrep (on Unix) and Fiddler (Windows) might be better/easier solutions.

If you absolutely want to use tcpdump, try out the following options

tcpdump -A -vvv host destination_hostname-A (ascii)-vvv (verbose output)


tcpdump -i eth0 -w dump3.pcap -v  'tcp and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&0xf)<<2)) - ((tcp[12]&0xf0)>>2)) != 0)'

see http://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/tcpdump.1.html