Is it possible to do a traceroute in the browser?
问题 I'm looking for a way to do a traceroute client-side, i.e. in a browser. As far as I know, it's not possible to send ICMP, UDP or TCP packets with arbitrary TTL values via Javascript or Flash. I know Flash allows TCP connections via the Socket class in Actionscript but it doesn't seem useful for a traceroute implementation. Is the only solution to develop a browser plug-in ? EDIT : I just found out that it has been done with a Java applet: http://www.codefromthe70s.org/traceroute.aspx The bad