Catch packets from my website

asked 2022-05-27 18:11:12 +0000

linuxbegginer
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Hello, so I have an HTML code which I run based on Github websites and I want to see packets going through my computer to the website which I created.

The HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <title>Http Requests & JavaScript</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css">
  <link href="xhr.js">
  <script src="xhr.js" defer></script>
</head>
<body onload="initRequestInterval()">
  <section id="control-center">
    <button id="get-btn">GET Data</button>
    <button id="post-btn">POST Data</button>
  </section>
</body>
</html>

Where "initRequestInterval()" sends 5 HTTP GET requests to the client every second

Website page:

https://pages.cs.huji.ac.il/nir-vakni...

The problem:

I don't see the packets because I don't know the public IP of that website I tried to do nslookup command and the DNS tells me that he didn't find the public IP of the website. I tried to Isolate the packets I sent from my computer so I can see the HTTP GET packets from the website but without success.

Possible explanation but I am not quite sure: I use dummy HTTP GET request such as: https://reqres.in/api/users so not actual data being sent, maybe because of that?

How can I capture the HTTP request on Wireshark console?

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DNS says:

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pages.cs.huji.ac.il.       IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pages.cs.huji.ac.il.    10616   IN  CNAME   web-system.cs.huji.ac.il.
web-system.cs.huji.ac.il. 10616 IN  A   132.65.118.65

Jaap ( 2022-05-28 11:01:14 +0000 )edit

Thank you very much :)

linuxbegginer ( 2022-05-29 17:29:25 +0000 )edit

Other observation: HTTPS How do you expect to capture it's content?

hugo.vanderkooij ( 2022-05-30 08:29:14 +0000 )edit

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answered 2022-05-28 21:06:35 +0000

André

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To answer your question:

How can I capture the HTTP request on Wireshark console?

Take a look at the documentation. Like: The “Capture” Menu and Start Capturing.

Regarding:

Where "initRequestInterval()" sends 5 HTTP GET requests to the client every second

That is not what happens. It's the client (browser) that sends the HTTPS requests. When a browser downloads your static webpage, it also downloads a JavaScript that triggers it to download a page 5 times per second. So the browser does the work, the webserver just serves some static objects.