Convert raw socket data into readable form

Question

I am working on network analyzer. I have used code available form http://www.binarytides.com/python-packet-sniffer-code-linux/. The data section output of the program is as follows:

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I need to convert this raw data into readable form and then analyze the data.I am using using python 2.7.

• Some programmer dude: Looks like you are receiving some kind of Unicode text, and not really iso-8859-1 as the header says.
• Aadeshnpn: Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 235 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=97 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Can any one help me to decode the packet?

Answer 1

If you look at the Content-Encoding header, it says gzip. This means that the web-page is compressed using the gzip algorithm. As such it's binary data that you can't print out, you have to uncompress it first.

You can use the Python gzip module for that.

• Aadeshnpn: Yes I have uncompressed it using gzip Python module but the result after the uncompression and conversion is not working.