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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:07:18+00:00

What’s a simple, easy-to-use *nix tool that will listen to requests on a given

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What’s a simple, easy-to-use *nix tool that will listen to requests on a given port and log the request header and body?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about netcat?

    sudo nc -l 80

    Update: Here’s what I see when I send a request through a browser.

    [~]$ sudo nc -l 80
Password:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/534.52.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.2 Safari/534.52.7
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
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