sniffing

You hear it all over the place: using javascript to sniff the user agent string to detect browser versions is a Very Bad Thing. The latest version of jQuery has now deprecated its $.browser object in place of $.support . But what should I do if there's a bug or problem which is only affecting IE and not the other browsers, and I'm not sure why? In my case, some jQuery code makes a tooltip appear and disappear with an animation on mouseover and mouseout. In Internet Explorer, it looks awful, and jittery, with the tooltip div changing to a really large size before hiding, and if you run your

What is the best way to sniff network packets using Python? I've heard from several places that the best module for this is a module called Scapy, unfortunately, it makes python.exe crash on my system. I would assume that it's just a problem with how I installed it, except that many other people have told me that it doesn't work particularly well on Windows. (If anyone is interested, I'm running Windows Vista, which might affect things). Does anyone know of a better solution? UPD: After reading the answer telling me to install PyPcap, I messed around with it a bit and found out that Scapy,

I would like to know if there are any applications like fiddler but for mac OS X, as I need to debug some requests from web applications in Mac OS X. I used to do it with fiddler on Windows and would love to have this tool available on Mac as well. outis There's the more general but perhaps not as helpful to you Wireshark . One of the SO server sites might be better suited for your question. In fact, it's already been asked on SuperUser . Charles is written in Java and runs on Macs. It's not free though. You can point your Mac at your Windows+Fiddler machine: http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler