Re: Etherreal not capturing calls to localhost


Jeff User wrote:

Problem is that when I call a web service on my local machine, same
machine as the client, no packets are being seen or captured.

Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to get this to work?

You might want to check the Ethereal documentation, as far as I remember it says something alike that on Windows there is no loopback device which would be needed to sniff local traffic.

I think the MS SOAP toolkit has a tracing utility where you set up a local proxy to which you direct your requests which are then traced and forwarded to the real address so you could e.g. set up that proxy for HTTP on port 8080 and have the normal web services for HTTP on port 80. That way you can work locally and still trace the traffic.



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