I am a moderate programmer, just getting into network programming.
As an attempt to improve my understanding of networks in general, I am trying to perform several basic HTTP actions from the packet level. My question is this: How might I use a library such as SCAPY to build an HTTP GET request and assosciated items at the packet level? I realise this may sound odd, but I can't seem to find any information detailing it, and my own attempts with PAROS and Ethereal have been... Less than satisfactory.
Thanks for any offered help!
Trimiert
If you want to do a full three-way handshake, you'll have to do it manually.
Start with your SYN packet:
>>> syn = IP(dst='www.google.com') / TCP(dport=80, flags='S')
>>> syn
<IP frag=0 proto=tcp dst=Net('www.google.com') |<TCP dport=www flags=S |>>
Then receive the SYN-ACK packet from the server, sr1 works. Then send your HTTP GET request:
>>> syn_ack = sr1(syn)
Begin emission:
Finished to send 1 packets.
*
Received 1 packets, got 1 answers, remaining 0 packets
>>> syn_ack
<IP version=4L ihl=5L tos=0x0 len=44 id=424 flags= frag=0L ttl=55 proto=tcp chksum=0x2caa src=74.125.226.148 dst=10.20.30.40 options=[] |<TCP sport=www dport=ftp_data seq=3833491143 ack=1 dataofs=6L reserved=0L flags=SA window=5720 chksum=0xd8b6 urgptr=0 options=[('MSS', 1430)] |<Padding load='\x00\x00' |>>>
Then set your TCP sequence and ack numbers and send the GET:
getStr = 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n'
request = IP(dst='www.google.com') / TCP(dport=80, sport=syn_ack[TCP].dport,
seq=syn_ack[TCP].ack, ack=syn_ack[TCP].seq + 1, flags='A') / getStr
reply = sr1(request)
Have you had a look at the tutorial? Just copying and pasting, this looks like it's going to assemble an HTTP request:
>>> a=Ether()/IP(dst="www.slashdot.org")/TCP()/"GET /index.html HTTP/1.0 \n\n"