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[Nemecek]

I've been looking everywhere on how to do this and maybe I can't find what I'm looking for because I'm not using the right terms so let me explain in further detail.

 

I want to write a program that basically shows me all the information being sent between me and a server. For example if I'm playing a game on my computer that interacts with others playing the same game online. If I click a button on the game I want to see the corresponding command that is sent to the server and similarly I want to see what the server will respond with.

 

I'm not looking for any lines of code I just want to know the general idea of how I could do this so that I can look  it up

 

Thanks to anyone who helps!

[Waser Lave]

So you want to reinvent Wireshark?

[Nemecek]

So you want to reinvent Wireshark?

 

Well in part yes because, I need the information to be sent to my program. I'm not going to manually send the information to my program each time.

[Waser Lave]

Well in part yes because, I need the information to be sent to my program. I'm not going to manually send the information to my program each time.

 

Well you'll likely want to use the winpcap library, that's probably the simplest way. I imagine if you google the language you want to use + something like packet sniffer you'll find plenty of things to give you a good start.

[Dan]

Fiddler or Wireshark as Waser says. Nice thought, but don't waste your time reinventing wheels

[Nemecek]

Well you'll likely want to use the winpcap library, that's probably the simplest way. I imagine if you google the language you want to use + something like packet sniffer you'll find plenty of things to give you a good start.

 

Thanks Waser, you always have the answer.