I’ve been able to set up sending and listening to http requests locally using 127.0.0.1:8000. I want to try doing it using the internet now.
I have a VPN with port forwarding enabled, but sending requests to that IP address and port does not yield a response like it did when doing it locally.
Can anyone clarify which address I should be listening on in order to receive http requests from the internet? I tried 0.0.0.0 and a few inet addresses from ip add, but none of them work.
Ok, you are putting the cart a few steps before the horse here and put simply, you can’t just tap the entire Internet from behind your own Internet connection and “through” a VPN. (A VPN “tunnel” is a bit misleading on how traffic is seen in the wire, but that is still many more steps ahead.)
Watching pcap is cool, but you need a fundamental understanding of networks and network protocols before you can actually see more than characters of the Matrix and understand what you are tapping into from the start.
To kick off your own research path, start reading into the OSI Model, TCP vs UDP, traffic routing and subnetting. You need to understand where you need to be to see the traffic you want to see first.
Unfortunately, I can’t begin to answer your question without some foundation in place first.
So, you don’t know how to listen for an HTTP request that’s sent over the internet to a VPN IP address with port-forwarding enabled?
They are telling you that you need to learn some more networking before you do anything.
There is no reason to expose a http server on the internet
Lolwut.