How can you 'debug' a third party application to know what IP or url its accessing?

[thereds]

Is there any tool that can do that for you? I'm trying to find it out for a video streaming application I downloaded. You don't have to enter a URL to play content. The application itself has 8 channels and you choose any one to watch.

Wrong forum?

 

[biggestmuff]

haha, lol. What is the content?

 

[waffleironhead]

wire shark?

 

[thereds]

It's not porn. There's tube8 for that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you use ethereal (now called wireshark) you can see the packets and where they're going. To isolate that app just make sure no other network apps are open, then just rule out any localized traffic.

Chances are the data will be encoded in some way that is hard to decipher though, probably even encrypted.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

open command prompt

netstat

Run app

netstat again

What are the new connections