using tcpdump to display XML API requests without headers or ack packets

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Published on 2012-09-11T13:50:34Z Indexed on 2014/08/22 16:26 UTC
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I need assistance, I am trying to use tcpdump in order to capture API requests and responses between two servers, so far I have the following command:

tcpdump -iany -tpnAXs0 host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and port 6666

My problem is, that the output is still hard to read, because it sends the Headers, and the ack packets.

I would like to remove those and only see the XML bodies.

I tried to use grep -v, but apparently this is all one request, so it filters the entire thing...

Thanks!

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