Capture HTTP/HTTPS and IP address orgin

if you are talking about seeing where traffic is coming from to access your web site, it should be in the logs

if you are running apache, it will appear in the access log
by default it will include the source IP address, date, time, page requested, browser used and result code

Do you want to capture the HTTP and HTTPS payload as well?  If so, then use tcpdump, wireshark, ngrep or similar to do a packet capture.   Note that it's a little more involved to capture HTTPS in plain text.

I think wireshark is overkill for what I want.

I basically want a simple log file that will list

HTTP/HTTPS - orgin IP address or (computer name)

I was looking for a simple command line utility I can setup on my Rasberry Pi to autorun on boot with a Network tap and capture the above INFORMATION from a network. Just to monitor what is being browsed.

Why not just do

tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log

I am not running a website, I want to see the websites the computers on my network are going to.

Ah, makes sense now.

Assuming the traffic goes through your pi, or you have a promiscuous network, then you can do:

tcpdump port 80 or port 443

if that's a little too verbose, you could do

tcpdump port 80 or port 443 | sed "s/\.http.*//"

in single line

#tcpdump port 80

tintin: this works for my needs but one other question,

I see for example when it runs the computer will hit an identical address 10 times in a row
for example:

11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:52 10.1.10.1> www.google.com
11:52 10.1.10.1> www.google.com
11:53 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:53 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:53 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:53 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com

how can I run the tcpdump and do an IF THEN comparison
to cut the above down to look like this 3 lines instead of 15 just to be able to read the log
easier.

11:51 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com
11:52 10.1.10.1> www.google.com
11:53 10.1.10.1 > compute.amazonaws.com

Thanks

Depends if you want to read it in realtime or not.

If you capture to a log, you can simply do:

uniq -d logfile

otherwise

#sort logfile | uniq -d

I would like to sort it in real time if possible so as to display it to a screen

Great! Thank you!!!!