Monitor Incoming Connections

[neodammer]

I was wondering if its possible to monitor port 80 connections via vb.net? I know its possible to monitor them normally but I have apache running on the computer im wanting to run the program on and therefore port 80 will be in use. Any suggestions on how or how its impossible to do this? I was making a access program (you can view the progress on the general section) just by accessing the log file but i wonder if i can just do it this way and monitor port 80 or whatever port i put apache on thanks.

 

[rot13]

I dont think this is possible with .net

I think you have to get down closer to the system to do something like that, but Im not that experienced with sockets programming, so I could be wrong.

 

[neodammer]

You can monitor any port easily with any .net language but the problem in this case is I am recieving errors with port 80 because its already being used by another program (apache) in this case. Which is why i have already started a program monitoring the .log files of apache (see general section) for monitoring the inc connections on that port. I have ideas but none solid about doing this; i have thought about making a virtual gateway program for port 80 that the webserver had to go through but thats insanely difficult, I have though about a php page that would just log everybodys ip etc for me but thats not true monitoring but close and is the method ill use should these others fail.

 

[progload]

neodammer,

Have you tried using raw sockets and filtering for inbound to port 80?

progload