socket-spy

Handly logger for plaintext socket traffic.

Use Cases

Originally developed to inspect HTTP multipart/form-data request bodies with nested file paths in @http/api for the http2.live service.

Also useful for:

• Inspecting a single, low-traffic connection in development.
• Viewing the raw network data to debug problems.
• Understanding low-level protocol details.
• Satisfying a healthy sense of technical curiosity.

Definitely not useful for:

• Production
• Performance
• Security

Usage

Print all incoming HTTP requests in the terminal as raw data.

const server = require('http').createServer()
server.on('connection', require('socket-spy'))
server.listen(0, () => {
  console.log(`Listening on port ${server.address().port}`)
})