Hacking Gmail

Chapter 5 — How Gmail Works 81

Reading an Individual Mail

Fire up Tcpflow again, and click one of the messages in the Inbox in Figure 5-10.

The trace resulting from this action is shown in Listing 5-12.

Listing 5-12: Trace from Reading a Message

192.168.016.051.59936-064.233.171.105.00080: GET
/gmail?ik=344af70c5d&view=cv&search=inbox&th=101865c04ac2427f&
lvp=-1&cvp=0&zx=9m4966e44e98uu HTTP/1.1
Host: gmail.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O;
en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Accept:text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/htm
l;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,/;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail?ik=&search=inbox&view=tl&start=0
&init=1&zx=iv37tme44d1tx5
Cookie: GV=1010186dcc455-ce01891ce232fa09b7f9bcfb46adf4e7;
PREF=ID=0070250e68e17190:CR=1:TM=1106068639:LM=1106068659:GM=1
:S=3jNiVz8ZpaPf0GW0; S=gmail=WczKrZ6s5sc:gmproxy=UMnFEH_hYC8;
TZ=-60; SID=DQAAAGoAAACm_kF5GqnusK0rbFcAlLKoJUx26l6np-
H5Een1P_hN--yWqycLWSJUZt3G9Td_Cgw_ZK1naS891aWxZ6IkbNiBFN1J4lmO
COTvOn7r3bnYjWlOqB6netb06ByuEf56Cd12ilfgika0MxmuamO3FWzw;
GMAIL_AT=29a3f526e2461d87-10186dcc456; GBE=d-540-800

064.233.171.105.00080-192.168.016.051.59936: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Set-Cookie: SID=DQAAAGoAAACm_kF5GqnusK0rbFcAlLKoJUx26l6np-
H5Een1P_hN--yWqycLWSJUZt3G9Td_Cgw_ZK1naS891aWxZ6IkbNiBFN1J4lmO
COTvOn7r3bnYjWlOqB6netb06ByuEf56Cd12ilfgika0MxmuamO3FWzw;Domai
n=.google.com;Path=/

Set-Cookie: GBE=; Expires=Mon, 17-Jan-05 18:00:37 GMT; Path=/
Cache-control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Server: GFE/1.3

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