Comments on: Dumping streaming media in 25 lines of Perl

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:07:34 +0000

Chances are that you’ll need root access anyway to be able to sniff traffic…
But try something like this:
$ mkdir -p Net/Analysis/Listener
$ mv GroovesharkListener.pm Net/Analysis//Listener/
$ sudo perl -I. -MNet::Analysis -e main ‘GroovesharkListener’ ‘port 80′
(starting live capture)

See the “sudo”? You may do without it, if your user has access to the whatever packet filtering facility your O.S. is supplying…
One more thing: should you need to target a specific network interface, I’ve got a patch to Net::Analysis just for that.

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Giuliano

By: Aleritty

Aleritty — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:37:50 +0000

I’m a complete perl-newbie but I can’t find a place where GroovesharkListener.pm is found by perl except in the main perl library (that I cannot access without the root password!) Can you help me explaining where or how I can place that piece of software?

By: Giuliano

Giuliano — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:05:48 +0000

Well, using Objective-C you’ll go far beyond 25 lines of code.
Net::Analysis and Net::Pcap should indeed work on Mac OS X: they’re using the same libraries as tcpdump. I’ll try as soon as I’ve got a Mac at hand.

Good luck with your program,
ciao,
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Giuliano

By: mariano

mariano — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:23:27 +0000

great post!

Such a shame I could not install Net analysis because I was imposible to install all the packages in my mac…

Now I’m trying to do a objective-C version of your script