Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] refuses to parse HTTP protocol

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:05:02 -0800
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:48:26PM -0800, Quartz wrote:
> I have tried 0.9, 0.9.9, 0.9.11.
> Could never decode http protocol. What is wrong with it?
> (it is enabled, not filtered, it just doesn't show up as it does in your snapshots)
> It shows as TCP, I have to loo at the TCP data all the time....

If it's not on port 80, 8080, 3128, 3132, or, in the case of protocols
running atop HTTP:

	SSDP	port 1900
	IPP	port 631

it won't be recognized as HTTP.  Nobody's written a heuristic HTTP
dissector, so Ethereal only recognizes HTTP traffic if it's on ports
that are known as HTTP ports.