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Table 14-1 Description of command options (Continued)
Turn on looping; that is, continue to accept connections rather than stopping after the first
-l
connection is complete.
Change the default rendezvous port (1924) to another port. The following are well-known port
-p port
numbers:
HTTP 80
HTTPS 443
SMTP 25
FTP 21
IMAP 143
IMAPS 993 (IMAP over SSL)
NNTP 119
NNTPS 563 (NNTP over SSL)
Examples
You can use SSL Debugging Tool to intercept any connection information.
Although you can run the tool at its most basic by issuing the
with no options other than hostname:port, the information you get in this way is not
very useful.
For example, assume your development machine is called
way to use the debugging tool is to execute the following command from a
command shell:
ssltap www.example.com:80
The program waits for an incoming connection on the default port 1924. In your
browser window, enter the URL
the requested page from the server at
intercepted and passed on to the browser by the debugging tool on
On its way to the browser, the data is printed to the command shell from which
you issued the command. Data sent from the client to the server is surrounded by
the following symbols:
--> [ data ]
Data sent from the server to the client is surrounded by the following symbols:
<-- [ data ]
http://intercept:1924
www.example.com
Chapter 14
Examples
command
ssltap
. The simplest
intercept
. The browser retrieves
, but the page is
intercept
SSL Debugging Tool
.
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