Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] http display filter wll not show http 1.1 packets

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From: Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:14:31 -0800
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:02:19PM +0100, J?rgen K?rpig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the current version Version 0.10.14 on windows and accessing pages via IE 6.0 with proxy configuration.
> I analysing http traffic with any hosts in our LAN, but http display filter doesn't work properly. 
> Only packets are found related to GETs with HTtP 1.0.
> Maybe the problem is that the GET for HTTP 1.1 doesn't include the protocol and the host in my case.
> How can I achieve that the http display filter will view such HTTP 1.1 traffic? The two different cases are shown below from captured stream:
> 
> GET for HTTP/1.0 goes over proxy and is displayed.
> GET http://<host>:<port>/xyz/index.html HTTP/1.0
> 
> GET for HTTP/1.1 does not go over proxy (LAN) and is not displayed with http display filter.
> GET /xyz/index.html HTTP/1.1
> 
> In captured stream I found out that is was captured and with tcp display filter I saw the packets but not with http display filter.
> tcp filter is not a good workarround, because I want to analyse the http protocol for convenience.
> What I'm doing wrong?

My guess would be that you are not using a port that's pre configured
for http.  Under the http preferences there's an option to add an
alternate TCP port.

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