[Zope-dev] TCPWatch or other such tool

[Shane Hathaway]

Bjorn Stabell wrote:
> Has anyone gotten TCPWatch to work recently?  Using Python2.1/2.2/2.3 I get:
>  
> Unhandled exception in thread started by <function window_loop at 
> 0x402877d4>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/zope/opt/bin/tcpwatch.py", line 656, in window_loop
>     app.mainloop()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 965, in mainloop
>     self.tk.mainloop(n)
> RuntimeError: Calling Tcl from different appartment

Other people have reported this, but I can't reproduce it.  I've been 
using tcpwatch on Python versions 2.1 through 2.3 without a hiccup.  Are 
you using Linux?  If so, what distribution?

As a workaround, you can use "-s" to dump to stdout.

> Are there any other good, free TCPWatch-like tools that allow you to 
> snoop on HTTP requests.

There is ethereal, though it's a lower level tool.

Shane