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tcptee.py is a tee for TCP. It acts as a simple TCP proxy and dumps all traffic onto stdout.
# A tee for TCP, similar to `socal -v`.
#
# | server
# client ---|
# | stdout
import socket
from select import select
import sys
import logging
class TcpTee:
def __init__(self, source_port, destination):
self.destination = destination
self.teesock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
self.teesock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
self.teesock.bind(('127.0.0.1', source_port))
self.teesock.listen(200)
# Linked client/server sockets in both directions
self.channel = {}
def run(self):
while 1:
inputready, outputready, exceptready = select([self.teesock] + list(self.channel.keys()), [], [])
for s in inputready:
if s == self.teesock:
self.on_accept()
break
data = s.recv(4096)
if not data:
self.on_close(s)
break
self.on_recv(s, data)
def on_accept(self):
clientsock, clientaddr = self.teesock.accept()
serversock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
try:
serversock.connect(self.destination)
except Exception:
logging.exception('Could not connect to server %s. Closing connection to client %s' % (self.destination, clientaddr))
clientsock.close()
else:
logging.info("%r has connected", clientaddr)
self.channel[clientsock] = serversock
self.channel[serversock] = clientsock
def on_close(self, sock):
logging.info("%s has disconnected", sock.getpeername())
othersock = self.channel[sock]
sock.close()
othersock.close()
del self.channel[sock]
del self.channel[othersock]
def on_recv(self, sock, data):
print(data)
self.channel[sock].send(data)
if __name__ == '__main__':
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("listen_port", help="The port this process will listen on.", type=int)
parser.add_argument("server_host", help="The remote host to connect to.")
parser.add_argument("server_port", help="The remote port to connect to.", type=int)
args = parser.parse_args()
logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stderr, level=logging.DEBUG)
tee = TcpTee(int(args.listen_port), (args.server_host, int(args.server_port)))
try:
tee.run()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
logging.info("Ctrl C - Good Bye")
sys.exit(1)
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This is based on work by @wustrack - https://gist.github.com/jwustrack/0c7cb063a28ce14766d421e8d8a12fcc .

When I tried to run that version in Python 3.4 I saw a couple of errors which, I think, were due to using Python 3. Anyway this version works for me in 3.4.

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