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Greetings.

I'm in the process of tracking down an issue with Firefox, and need some way of gathering the actual web addresses which are connected to from localhost.

The specific problem centers around the determination/capture of the exact generated app.update.url address formed by the browser during an update query.

Tried doing this with an apparently "crippled" (feature-stripped) copy of netstat; but couldn't assemble the proper syntax for the old guy to make it work...

Any quick "pet ways" of doing this with some common tool would be most appreciated

Thanks again!

netstat can't tell you web addresses -- all it knows is what IP connected to what IP at what port, everything else is buried inside HTTP protocol.

I use tinyproxy for this. It's a little proxy daemon that's easy to run a limited instance of. Configure your web browser to connect to the proxy, and it will log URL's as it goes.

@Corona688:

Thanks for the "heads up" on this. apt-got it . . .

This might be a bit (or a byte) more complex than I thought; as the connection in question is running over HTTPS. I tried the manpages, and still I'm a bit at sea here: Any tips and pointers to pass on as to how one might make this tick over just to grab the addresses as they go by (without causing a morass of security holes)?



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@Corona688:

Got it! Not too hard, if you know the handshakes:

osx - Automatic updates of Firefox (stable and beta) don't work on OS X - Super User

(Was able to get the silly thing to tell on itself.)

Thanks again!