Hi
I am developing a web page and need to check the traffic to and from the web page. Unfortunately, I cannot capture anything on my laptop with my capture filter host 192.168.1.181 and port 44302. 192.168.1.181 is my workstation's IP. The captures works fine, if I do this between 2 hosts on the same segment of the network.
Kind regards, Sam
If the web server and the client are on the same host (machine) then the connection will be "short-circuited" and not actually go out the NIC, instead it will be run over the loopback adaptor (127.0.0.1 or ::1).
The wiki page Loopback explains the issue, but is seriously out of date for Windows systems. With modern npcap installed you will always see an "Adaptor for loopback traffic capture" in the interfaces list and this can be used to capture the traffic you require. For other Os's there will already be a "lo" (or lo0) virtual interface.
If using Windows I do NOT recommend trying any of the other methods on that page (possibly excepting rawcap), they are obsolete and can cause issues in your networking systems.
HI,
Thank you for your answer. Is it so, even when the URL is defined as 192.168.1.181:44302. I do not think that there will be a reverse lookup. Even a reverse lookup will return my hostname:
Server: RT-AC86U-1E78 Address: 192.168.1.1
Name: WIN11 Address: 192.168.1.181
MVH Sam
It does for me on Win10 using Chrome as a client. Try capturing on the "Adaptor for loopback traffic capture".
Thanks. I will.
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