Capture HTTP request packets from my iPhone

Question

I want to monitor the HTTP traffic sent/received from my iPhone. The iphone is connected to the Internet via my wifi router. I want to capture packets from my windows 7 station.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You have a few options here:

• If your wireless router has a port mirroring or port spanning feature, turn it on and point it at your workstation's IP. Use Wireshark on your workstation to look at the packets arriving on the interface assigned to that IP.
• If your workstation has a wireless card, get Connectify for Windows 7 (turns wireless card into Wifi Hotspot). Connect iPhone through Windows 7 wireless, and workstation through ethernet to the internet. Your workstation will effectively act as a router for your iPhone and you will be able to record iPhone's packets passing through it.
• Get an ethernet hub (make sure it is not a switch, you won't see all packets on every interface with a switch), and connect your workstation, wifi router and internet to it.
• Get a switch with port mirroring feature, configure port mirroring to forward a copy of all packets to your workstation.