I'm trying to consume the external web service, and I'm able to do it using soapUI with xml.
And apparently I'm sending something else from my code, is there a way I can monitor all outgoing requests, inspect them and then forward them to the actual service?
Update:
The webservice is not on my machine, it sits somewhere on the internet.
Update II:
I downloaded wireshark, there are like milion things popping on my screen, I can't see what's what. Any better tools out there? I've used tcpMon before
I would recommend using the Fiddler tool, provided you're running Fiddler and the website on the same machine you should be able to see the requests being fired.
There is some extra setup required to capture the service calls, have a look at this Blog for more details.
The parameters should be available in the headers when you inspect the request.
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I'm testing with JMeter and I need the HTTP request data to make that.
I tried to see that information in F12 Network of Chrome browser, but it doesn't appear the information there.
Someone knows how can I get that information?
You can't get the request because the browser refreshes the network tab when you go to another page. But you can persist these requests marking the option Preserve Logs, like so:
Image before request, with the checkbox checked:
After request, persistent logs:
You can see more information about the network tab here
The easiest way is to capture HAR file in the Chrome Developer Tools, it will have all the information for the request data including parameters, headers, cookies, etc.
Once done you will be able to inspect it with i.e. HAR Analyzer or simply convert it into a JMeter .jmx script
The best way to capture HTTP Requests is by using JMeter's Proxy.
If you try to inspect network in browser and construct JMeter script manually it takes lot of efforts, Alternatively you can just set your JMeter as a proxy server and capture your browsers network traffic.
Follow this post for more information on how to setup proxy in JMeter and record web applications.
I am trying to block certain websites using a web application. So, when a I type a url suppose "http://www.google.com" it should first check whether google is blocked by my application or not. If not open the website otherwise reject the browser request to open it. I am unable to find a way to capture all HTTP request from browser so that I can process it.
I Know proxies are the most suitable option but is there any alternative solution to this. After some searching I found a library - jpcap (a network packet capture library) and I was wondering if this could help me or not?
What you are trying to create is a proxy-server.
You have to configure the browser to go through the proxy, then you can deny websites, reroute them etc.
There are many proxies already there (open source and commercial) that offer what you want.
For example: Squid http://www.squid-cache.org/
See Wikipedia description of a proxy here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
Many firewall products offer the service of a transparent proxy, redirecting all http/https traffic going through the firewall into a proxy server. It seems, you have a direct connection but your packages are really filtered. Aka transparent proxy.
If your assignment does not allow this context, you need to check the assignment again, if you really got the scope of filtering right.
You cannot take over the browser's ip communication from a servlet or servlet filter. Using a (servlet) filter, you can only filter requests directed to your application. One step above, using an application server valve (Tomcat uses this term, others may use a different one), you can only filter requests directed at that server. One step above (or below) your application server is the physical server and the network it is running in.
If your client does not share the same network as your server, you can't even apply transparent proxy to it. Since browsers are running on the client computer, most clients in the world do not share the same network zone as the server.
It just does not work as you expect it.
I have a console Java application. Some of HTTP requests return error codes, and I want to debug them. In browser I can watch POST requests in detail, but how can I manage to do it in Java application?
In your getHttpRequest (or whatever it is called) method print incoming request.
That would be the simplest solution.
More sophisticated - you can extend standard classes which work with requests and modify methods which get requests to print them first.
Try Wireshark or fiddler. The both sniff traffic in a similar manner as firefox and various browsers do now.
Recently I used a Mac application called Spotflux. I think it's written in Java (because if you hover over its icon it literally says "java"...).
It's just a VPN app. However, to support itself, it can show you ads... while browsing. You can be browsing on chrome, and the page will load with a banner at the bottom.
Since it is a VPN app, it obviously can control what goes in and out of your machine, so I guess that it simply appends some html to any website response before passing it to your browser.
I'm not interested in making a VPN or anything like that. The real question is: how, using Java, can you intercept the html response from a website and append more html to it before it reaches your browser? Suppose that I want to make an app that literally puts a picture at the bottom of every site you visit.
This is, of course, a hypothetical answer - I don't really know how Spotflux works.
However, I'm guessing that as part of its VPN, it installs a proxy server. Proxy servers intercept HTTP requests and responses, for a variety of reasons - most corporate networks use proxy servers for caching, monitoring internet usage, and blocking access to NSFW content.
As a proxy server can see all HTTP traffic between your browser and the internet, it can modify that HTTP; often, a proxy server will inject an HTTP header, for instance; injecting an additional HTML tag for an image would be relatively easy.
Here's a sample implementation of a proxy server in Java.
There are many ways to do this. Probably the easiest would be to proxy HTTP requests through a web proxy like RabbIT (written in java). Then just extend the proxy to mess with the response being sent back to the browser.
In the case of Rabbit, this can either be done with custom code, or with a special Filter. See their FAQ.
WARNING: this is not as simple as you think. Adding an image to the bottom of every screen will be hard to do, depending on what kind of HTML is returned by the server. Depending on what CSS, javascript, etc that the remote site uses, you can't just put the same HTML markup in and expect it to act the same everywhere.
I have a third party server that is periodically sending http post request messages to an URL(can be configured). In my application I am reading data by starting a jetty server and listening for data on the configured URL.
Wondering if it is possible to listen for the data sent by the server without starting any server like the jetty?
You can always create a socket yourself and listen at port 80 (or something similar) for HTTP requests. See http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/ServerSocket.html
But there are several problems: Theres a lot of overhead that you need to do yourself. Parse the HTTP request, extract the headers and the body and depending on the headers you need to do certain things like caching, authentication, etc. And that's a lot of stuff you need to implement. Using an existing web server is usually a better idea, since the people who wrote it (usually) know exactly what they are doing.
Another option is the Apache HttpCore library (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/index.html). You can use it to write your own Http Server... But again, there's still a lot of stuff you need to take care of ...
If you want to do it for learning purposes, go ahead and implement it yourself. When it is for production, stick with the commonly used web servers.