What are your criteria for a "web connection"? Any http/https request made
from a browser? http/https from anything? DNS resolution? Any established
tcp session?
Taking a guess at what you want, my first instinct would be to change your
dns servers to a dns proxy with logging, but that's only
Have you considered LittleSnitch? It's by far the most well-known of
the logging firewalls for OS X. You can set it to permissive, then
allow everything out, but log it.
As far as "not easy to detect", that's probably not going to work.
Without compromising the kernel, everything is going to be
I realize this is a Linux group, however I'm hoping some of you have
some OSX experience.
Is there a good solution for logging web connections on a Mac? I'm
thinking of something real simple and lightweight thats not easy to
detect. An open source solution would be a plus. A command line daemon