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Using HTTP - Wireshark Tutorial
From the course: Wireshark Essential Training
Using HTTP
- [Instructor] Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol for browsing the web. HTTP has been in use on the web since the early 1990s. It's a client server model that uses TCP port 80 by default, but can use other ports as well. With a typical transaction, the client will send an HTTP request and indicate what the client wants. The server then will respond with a status code and server information, and then any requested data. Now there are several status codes within HTTP, but most of the time, we're going to get a 200 or success, meaning everything's okay and the data will follow. Most application layer protocols have a typical format where you have the frame header, the network layer header, and the transport layer header followed by the data. Now the frame header, the network layer and the transport layer header remained pretty much the same. The data in the application layer header changes…
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