Monday, January 16, 2012

Wireshark: Following HTTP requests/responses

I like using Wireshark to have a look at the traffic going across different interfaces but because it shows what’s happening across the wire by the packet it’s quite difficult to tell what a request/response looked like.

I’ve been playing around with restfulie/Vraptor today so I wanted to be able to see the request/response pair when something wasn’t working.

I didn’t know it was actually possible but this post on StackOverflow describes how.

First we need to select the row which contains any part of our request/response – in this case I just selected the row representing the request – and then we go to the Analyze menu and click ‘Follow TCP Stream’:

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