I haven’t tried the install on linux - I imagine the instructions on the Wireshark website work fine. You might find these links helpful if you are on a mac: Then you could try, running wireshark from the Applications menu in XQuartz, or from the application icon directly.

“open /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOs/Wireshark”.

If it doesn’t work then you could try, start xquartz In the Applications menu of Xquartz, customize it and “Add Item” with the command:

Start wireshark - it might take a while, but should work.

Mac install was a little harder for me and it didn’t work out the box so I had to do the extra steps to add the application to XQuartz Not finding tools, for the sake of tools. Our aim is to keep looking for new ways of achieving our outcomes. So we have a new option - work at the network traffic level, rather than proxy. We need to increase our flexibility to approaching the observation. If we have the issue that we can’t because we can’t configure the app to point to the proxy then we need other options. (It’s also fun to hook into hotel wifi and airport lounge wifi - but don’t tell anyone.)īut the serious point, is that we know we want to observe the http traffic.

Why would I want to do that?īecause sometimes the mobile app you are testing does not honour the proxy settings of the device and goes direct, so you don’t see the traffic.Īnd because you can start learning more about the network traffic layers being used by your application and your device in general. Then you can capture the wifi traffic, filter it, and then monitor the HTTP traffic from your mobile device. So if your mobile device is on the same wifi network as your Wireshark machine’s wifi card. With Wireshark, you tell it to capture traffic from your network card, and it can then capture any traffic going through that network. Unlike an HTTP proxy server where you have to configure your machine to point to the HTTP proxy server in order to monitor the traffic. Wireshark is a tool for monitoring network traffic.

I’m using Mac to show you this functionality. You may need to buy an additional adapter to do this. Note that you may not be able to capture the mobile traffic on Windows because of WinPCap limitations. You can find wireshark on line - it is a free tool.

Open wireshark command line in mac