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Capturing JVM TLS traffic for SBT
posted on 2020-04-22 21:20:20+02:00

Today I've had to dig deeper into some problem authenticating against an HTTPS API. This client was sending Basic Authentication information following a 3XX redirect, which then would make the second server (well, S3 really) return a 400 Bad Request, since it's refusing to deal with more than one authentication method at the same time.

This is all and good, but debugging what was actually being sent is a little bit more difficult if curl is not the method of choice.

Instead I found the -Djavax.net.debug=all option for the JVM. This will make it dump a lot of information throughout a connection. Mostly that's already enough to debug the issue, since a hexdump of the HTTP traffic is included. On the other hand it's also pretty verbose.

Another option is the slightly more involved jSSLKeyLog, which requires the use of a JVM parameter to include the Java agent, e.g. for SBT like so:

env JAVA_OPTS="-javaagent:jSSLKeyLog.jar==/jsslkeylog.log" sbt

Two more notes here: Compiling the tool is really easy, once cloned mvn package results in a ready-to-use JAR file. Also the log contains more information when two equal signs are used (handy for manual inspection).

This file can then be directly fed into WireShark ("Edit", "Preferences", "Protocols", "TLS", "(Pre-)-Master-Secret log filename") and will then allow the decoding of the captured network traffic (e.g. via tcpdump -i any -s 0 -w dump.pcap).

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