Network Analysis Using Wireshark Cookbook

Configuring HTTP preferences

There are some preferences that you can change when working with HTTP. Let's see what they are.

Getting ready

Start Wireshark and go to the next section.

How to do it...

1. Choose Edit | Preferences.
2. Under Protocols, select HTTP. You will get the following window:
   
   • By default, the upper four rows are checked. These are options that reassemble the HTTP headers and body when fragmentation is performed on the lower layers.
   • In the TCP Ports field, you will get a list of the port numbers that Wireshark will dissect as HTTP. In this list, you see the default port 80, ports 8080 and 8088 that are usually used for proxies, and others. ...