Friday, August 5, 2011

URL Snooper

URL Snooper allows you to extract links that are masked or hidden behind scripts and/or server redirection. It uses WinPcap and acts as a small network sniffer, that automatically filters all URL requests that it encounters. You can further filter the list to only show multimedia links.

For example when user tries to download Adobe Flash Player, by default they will be asked to download the Adobe Download Manager first and then the download manager will then automatically download the Flash Player without showing the URL to the user. So let's give URLSnooper a try to identify those hidden URLs.





Look for http exe file and you should see a few of them. It is pretty obvious that the Adobe Flash Player installer setup file is http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe while the other two is the McAfee Security Scan and Google Toolbar.

Note: This program is donationware. It is free to try, but the author accepts and encourages donations towards further development.

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