Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] pure HTTP capture filer?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 17, 2006, at 6:41 AM, Erik P Vinther wrote:

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> Can i define a pure HTTP capture filer (excluding the tpc)?

What do you mean "excluding the tpc"?

If you mean "excluding the TCP", what does that mean?  Do you mean  
"how do I define a capture filter that captures packets with HTTP  
traffic but doesn't capture ACK-only packets?"  (HTTP runs over TCP,  
with some rare exceptions, so literally "excluding the TCP" would  
exclude HTTP as well.)

For TCP over IPv4, see

	http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/2005/11/msg00027.html

for an example of a filter that will capture only TCP packets with  
data (i.e., no ACK-only packets).