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I'm doing some development, a Java app that communicates via HTTP. The log4j isn't helping me much so I'd like to see the actual HTTP Request that I am creating once it gets sent out.

I know that in the Windows world I use a packet sniffer for this. Sometimes I'm surprised by what OS X can do out of the box - can it do this?

If not, what's a good packet sniffer on OS X?

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turns out that tcpdump is an easy way to do it out of the box.

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excellent. – Troggy♦ Aug 6 '09 at 3:37
you probably need to run as root. There are a couple ways to get access. I set my root password. – benc Aug 18 '09 at 1:35
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http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

This is the best one I have used so far. I do not know of anything that is available "right out of the box" though.

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