Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Viewing SSL Content

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From: "Steven Pack" <steven.pack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:42:09 +0100
IEWatch was perfect! Great tool.

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From: ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ethereal-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry
Talkington
Sent: 24 September 2005 02:30
To: Ethereal user support
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Viewing SSL Content

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:25:06PM +0100, Steven Pack wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to ascertain if content from a web server is compressed or
> not. Normally this is quite simple in Ethereal, as I view the HTTP
> request and response headers when accessing the page and look for
> response-encoding. However, when the page is over SSL, everything is
> obviously encrypted. Is there any way to view the encrypted content?

Not without the server key (and passphrase,) but you can view the
headers using something like livehttpheaders
(http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/) or IEWatch.


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