Thread: reading http packets in C

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    Hamster without a wheel iain's Avatar
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    reading http packets in C

    I am trying to access the HTTP environment variables, particularly
    REMOTE_ADDR
    HTTP_VIA
    HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR

    i have written a small program that dumps the contents of a http packet to the screen, but i cant see the full set of variables i want. Does anyone know how i can access the full set of http variables.
    (Linux, gcc)

    This is the output of my program:

    HTTP-Dump is starting on port 80
    HTTP-Dump is listening on port 80


    Waiting for a connection
    Connection :
    packet recieved :
    packet size: 8500
    GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.google.com
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618
    Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
    Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
    Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
    Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
    Keep-Alive: 300
    Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
    Cookie: PREF=ID=730cd87420aa9d66:CR=1:TM=1108661555:LM=110 8755738:GM=1:S=o86Whlr8YN1seXdf
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    HTTP_VIA and HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR are optionally added by proxy servers and will not be present for a direct connection. REMOTE_ADDR is a cgi variable that is set to the remote address of the client (as returned by accept). It is not part of the request packet. You should not rely on any variable being present.
    Last edited by anonytmouse; 03-30-2005 at 08:36 AM.

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