Manipulating network stream with netsed

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Netsed is a network packet stream editor.

On a Linux gateway, let’s set a silent redirect to the port netsed will be listening on:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 1080

Then start netsed:

netsed tcp 1080 0 80 's/string%20A/string%20B/'

Any “string A” in a web page will be replaced by “string B”.

In the output you would see this:

[+] Caught server -> client packet.
    Applying rule s/string%20A/string%20B...
	[*] Done 1 replacements, forwarding packet of size 1453 (orig 1452).