A great TCP/IP capture utility
I was writing a program the other day that would talk to a web server. It wasn't working, and I couldn't figure out why, because the particular technology I was using gave me very little to work with in the way of, oh, I dunno, OUTPUT??
Well, that's a rant for later. But what I ended up finding, and solving the problem with, is a great little program called SmartSniff. SmartSniff allows you to capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. Once I started it up, I could monitor what my program was saying to the web server and I immediately saw where I'd gone wrong. The problem was easy to fix. This will also be good for times when I need to write a program to "mimic" some other application.
The best part about SmartSniff is that it works really well. The second best part about SmartSniff is that it's freeware
Visit SmartSniff's website by clicking TCP/IP Monitor/Sniffer. I'm also providing a link to download SmartSniff in case their site is down and you need it in a hurry.
