Tohir Solomons

Wireshark Filters – Ajax Example

Posted on the September 30th, 2010 under Internet,Linux,Software and Technology by Tohir

I’ve blogged about Wireshark before, and how to use it for Ajax. Next is a quick tip on how to use Wireshark’s filters feature to only watch for AJAX requests. In the filter tab, enter:

http.request.uri contains "php" ||  http.content_type == "text/html"

This effectively reads, only log items where:

1. The HTTP request contains PHP, OR
2. The HTTP response is “text/html”

Useful, dont have to wade through whats an Ajax response, bypass images, etc. One thing that would be nice would be if the area that shows the filter expression was longer!