[wplug] wplug Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1

[Stephen R Phillips]

You may wish to see if you can run it through a proxy that merely forwards the connections and request information.
You might be faced with a timing issue. human based interaction is MUCH slower. So it may be getting a request for something faster than it will allow. If you can attempt to try delaying handshakes etc. to see if that makes a difference. I assume it's not using UDP but TCP for the server connection. Anyhow funnel requests through something local (IE that you can control) so you can see the timing and messaging is my suggestion. If I remember SSL is it's own protocol but it is still a TCP connection. Security requires keys to make the hand shake. You may be dealing with SSL itself killing the connection. It's quite picky for good reason.

 
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> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:39:22 -0400

> From: Pat Barron <pat at lectroid.com>
> To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
> Subject: [wplug] I need to "wiretap" an HTTPS connection - how?
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> So, long story short...
> 
> I have an application making an HTTPS connection to a URL (for the 
> purpose of POSTing a SOAP request, though that's probably not relevant 
> per se...).  Before successfully completing the HTTPS request, the 
> remote side is dropping the connection on me.  I have no idea why.  I'd 
> like to be able to see what is actually being sent/received on  the 
> connection - though that is tough, since it is encrypted...
> 
> I have the ability to change the host and URL that is being used, and to 
> make the application use HTTP instead of HTTPS.  What I have in mind, is 
> to try to put some kind of proxy between the app and the remote server, 
> so that the app connects to the proxy using HTTP, and have the proxy 
> connect on it's behalf to the remote server using HTTPS.  Then I can 
> sniff the traffic on the unencrypted HTTP connection and get a better 
> idea what is going on.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a simple proxy I could use for this?
> 
> --Pat.
> 
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