100 Days of DevOps — Day 63- Wireshark for HTTP/HTTPS Analysis

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Welcome to Day 63 of 100 Days of DevOps, Focus for today is HTTP/HTTPS analysis using Wireshark.

Yesterday on Day62, I wrote about some useful Linux command to debug Network issue

100 Days of DevOps — Day 62-Useful Linux Command for Network Troubleshooting

Let extend that concept further and see about very useful tool Wireshark to dig deeper.

How HTTP works

To Demonstrate that let’s use Sample Captures from Wireshark website(http.cap)

SampleCaptures — The Wireshark Wiki

Before start analyzing any packet, please turn off “Allow subdissector to reassemble TCP streams”(Preference → Protocol → TCP)(This will prevent TCP packet to split into…