Author of this application is [Tom Poindexter] and [Keith Vetter].

sockspy [http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/net/sockspy-1.0]
"watch[[es]] the conversation of a Tcp client and server",
according to its quite readable README
[http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/net/sockspy-1.0/1.0/sockspy-1.0.README].
Although "not a
replacement for heavy duty tools such as 'tcpdump' and other passive
packet sniffers" (Ethereal [http://www.ethereal.com/], ...), it's easy to install, configure, and launch, and
pleasingly convenient for "debugging Tcp client/server programs,
examining protocols and diagnosing network problems".



sockspy is nearly indispensable for any network programmer or
network administrator, quite apart from any interest they might
have in Tcl.  [[Compare to tcpdump, ...]]







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Version 2.0 of sockspy is available on sourceforge at [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sockspy/sockspy.tcl].
[http://sockspy.sourceforge.net/sockspy.html] documents sockspy.

Among the new features are:
   * reorganized GUI to use one pane and different colors to indicate client, server and meta data
   * can be run as a command-line (tcl not tk) application.  Before 2.0, sockspy was inherently Tk
   * you can stop, start and change the socket forwarding configuration from within the application

Keith has also updated [http://sockspy.sourceforge.net/sockspy.html]
Tom's version 1.0 tutorial.








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[Sebastian Wangnick] has an interesting complement to sockspy he
calls [ipc].  [[Also explain relations to sniffers--tcpdump, ethereal, ..., and [pktsrc] ]]


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[CL] plans a couple of articles (late?) in 2002 on sockspy applications.

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