Wireshark Lab: HTTP
Version: 2.
0 (June 2007)
© 2007 J.
F.
Kurose, K.
W.
Ross.
All Rights Reserved
Computer Networking: A Topdown Approach, 4
th
edition.
Having gotten our feet wet with the Wireshark packet sniffer in the introductory lab,...
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Wireshark Lab: HTTP
Version: 2.
0 (June 2007)
© 2007 J.
F.
Kurose, K.
W.
Ross.
All Rights Reserved
Computer Networking: A Topdown Approach, 4
th
edition.
Having gotten our feet wet with the Wireshark packet sniffer in the introductory lab,
we’re now ready to use Wireshark to investigate protocols in operation.
In this lab, we’ll
explore several aspects of the HTTP protocol: the basic GET/response interaction, HTTP
message formats, retrieving large HTML files, retrieving HTML files with embedded
objects, and HTTP authentication and security.
Before beginning these labs, you might
want to review Section 2.
2 of the text.
1.
The Basic HTTP GET/response interaction
Let’s begin our exploration of HTTP by downloading a very simple HTML file - one that
is very short, and contains no embedded objects.
Do the following:
1.
Start up your web browser.
2.
Start up the Wireshark packet sniffer, as described in the Introductory lab (but
don’t yet begin pa
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