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.

Wireshark usage network