HTTP analysis II

We'll investigate some issues with HTTP by looking at the error messages again and how to decrypt HTTPS (which is TLS now) traffic. This also works for SSL.

We'll download an example capture from the SampleCaptures section on the Wireshark wiki (https://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures). Once you go to the SampleCaptures page, go down to Specific Protocols and Protocol Families | HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP):

If you click on that, we'll have a list of some basic HTTP captures that we can look at. At the bottom it has a link to SSL with decryption keys, and we'll download the top link snake-oil2 070531.tgz file. All ...

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