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Http Request Viewer

Overview

Listens on a socket for incoming Http requests and displays the received Http Request Headers Jar File httpdisplay.jar Source jar httpdisplay_src.jar Javadoc docs.jar

Description

This app is useful for inspecting the headers being sent from a device (eg mobile/wireless device) or any other browser. This is useful if you are developing an app to handle multiple devices and are interested in the 'User-Agent' header (to determine the browser type and capabilities running on the client device in order to send back device specific content) intercept the 'Accept-Language' header to send back specific language content

Running the app

Run the app from the jar: java -jar httpdisplay.jar [portnumber] - where [portnumber] is the port you want the tool to listen on for requests (eg 80, or 8080), eg java -jar httpdisplay.jar 80

Interesting Features

Illustrates simple use of java.net.Socket and java.net.ServerSocket

Limitations

The app currently does not return an HTTP response back to the calling app, so eventually the caller will time out. The request is still displayed in the app (see screenshot below)

Screenshots:

1. Main application window

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Last updated: Oct 2007 v2.0