chaosreader

I'm experimenting with ↑chaosreader to analyze my smartphone's network traffic. (Smartphone's are, let's say, interesting when privacy is concerned. I've got a rooted one running ↑CyanogenMod, where I tend to capture most network traffic via ↑tcpdump. Sometimes I feel like analyzing what my phone does behind the scenes; then, in addition to chaosreader, ↑Wireshark is a great tool…)

As chaosreader does not appear to be actively maintained I'm publishing my patched version with the following changes here:

• Switch to GPLv3.
• Integrate ↑diff to reassemble chunked HTTP transfers.
• Parse linux cooked captures, which result from listening on `any´ interface. (Chaosreader0.94 does not produce any output for such pcaps.)
• Use HTTP content-type to identify file types such as HTML, XML, Javascript, CSS; use those types for better file extensions than `data´.
• More systematic Content-Type handling based on MIME types. (More image types included in Image Report based on MIME types.)
• Uncompress gzip'ed data.
• Add new command line switch (`-n´) to show host names in HTTPlog and to create href-links from HTTPlog rows to the corresponding rows in the table on index.html.
• Add new command line switch (`-d´) to parse captured DNS replies and show DNS names instead of IP addresses on index page; save DNS replies as text files.

Downloads:

• ↑GPLv3
• My versions of chaosreader
  • 0.95d, 2012-02-10
    • chaosreader0.95d (chaosreader0.95d.asc)
    • Patch (diff file) for ↑chaosreader 0.94-3 shipped on Debian Linux: chaosreader0.95d.diff (chaosreader0.95d.diff.asc)
  • 0.95c, 2012-01-04
    • chaosreader0.95c (chaosreader0.95c.asc)
    • Patch (diff file) for ↑chaosreader 0.94-3 shipped on Debian Linux: chaosreader0.95c.diff (chaosreader0.95c.diff.asc)
  • 0.95b, 2011-09-24
    • chaosreader0.95b (chaosreader0.95b.asc)
    • Patch (diff file) for ↑chaosreader 0.94-3 shipped on Debian Linux: chaosreader0.95b.diff (chaosreader0.95b.diff.asc)
  • 0.95, 2011-09-11
    • chaosreader0.95 (chaosreader0.95.asc)
    • Patch (diff file) for ↑chaosreader 0.94-3 shipped on Debian Linux: chaosreader0.95.diff (chaosreader0.95.diff.asc)