HTTPRY(1)HTTPRY(1)NAMEhttpry - HTTP logging and information retrieval tool
SYNOPSIShttpry [ -dFpq ] [ -b file ] [ -f format ] [ -i device ] [ -m methods ]
[ -n count ] [ -o file ] [ -P file ] [ -r file ] [-t seconds] [ -u user
] [ 'expression' ]
httpry-h
DESCRIPTIONhttpry is a tool designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It
is not designed to perform analysis itself, but instead to capture,
parse and log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-
time displaying the live traffic on the wire, or as a daemon process
that logs to an output file.
OPTIONS-b file
Write all processed HTTP packets to a binary pcap dump file.
Useful for further analysis of logged data.
-d Run the program as a daemon process. All program status output
will be sent to syslog. A pid file is created for the process in
/var/run/httpry.pid by default. Requires an output file speci‐
fied with -o.
-f format
Provide a comma-delimited string specifying the parsed HTTP data
to output. See the doc/format-string file for further informa‐
tion regarding available options and syntax.
-F Disable all output buffering. This may be helpful when piping
httpry output into another program.
-h Display a brief description of these options.
-i device
Specify an ethernet interface for the program to listen on. If
not specified, the program will poll the system for a list of
interfaces and select the first one found.
-l threshold
Specify a requests per second rate threshold value when running
in rate statistics mode (-s). Only hosts with a rps value
greater than or equal to this number will be displayed. Defaults
to 1.
-m methods
Provide a comma-delimited string that specifies the request
methods to parse. The program defaults to parsing all of the
standard RFC2616 method strings if this option is not set. See
the doc/method-string file for more information.
-n count
Parse this number of HTTP packets and then exit. Defaults to 0,
which means loop forever.
-o file
Specify an output file for writing parsed packet data.
-p Do not put the NIC in promiscuous mode on startup. Note that the
NIC could already be in that mode for another reason.
-P file
Specify a path and filename for creating the PID file in daemon
mode.
-q Suppress non-critical output (startup banner, statistics, etc.).
-r file
Provide an input capture file to read from instead of performing
a live capture. This option does not require root privileges.
-s Run httpry in an HTTP request per second display mode. This
periodically displays the rate per active host and total rate at
a specified interval.
-t seconds
Specify the host statistics display interval in seconds when
running in rate statistics mode (-s). Defaults to 5 seconds.
-u user
Specify an alternate user to take ownership of the process and
any output files. You will need root privileges to do this; it
will switch to the new user after initialization.
'expression'
Specify a bpf-style capture filter, overriding the default. Here
are a few basic examples starting with the default filter:
'tcp port 80 or 8080'
'tcp dst port 80'
'tcp dst port 80 and src host 192.168.1.1'
These filters will capture all web traffic both directions on
two common ports, capture only requests made to port 80, and
capture requests to port 80 by a particular host, respectively.
See 'man tcpdump' for further information on the syntax and
available primitives.
AUTHORhttpry was written by Jason Bittel <jason.bittel@gmail.com>. See
included COPYING file for specific licensing information
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