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I'm doing some development, a Java app that communicates via HTTP. The log4j isn't helping me much so I'd like to see the actual HTTP Request that I am creating once it gets sent out.

I know that in the Windows world I use a packet sniffer for this. Sometimes I'm surprised by what OS X can do out of the box - can it do this?

If not, what's a good packet sniffer on OS X?

Chris W. Rea
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bpapa
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turns out that tcpdump is an easy way to do it out of the box.

bpapa
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http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

This is the best one I have used so far. I do not know of anything that is available "right out of the box" though.

Troggy
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HTTPScoop does perfectly the job for simple http sniffing.

Although a bit old fashion looking still worth to mention Eavesdrop for general basic sniffing

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