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 you'll need to do is extract that so that you can get to the files within.
Note
By default, Windows can only extract .zip
files, so you'll need to download something like 7-Zip or WinRAR in order to open it.
When you open the cap file, you'll see that it's an older file. This is actually from somewhere around 2007, probably, so it's not a pcapng
file. But it...