I am using Wireshark to capture traffic from an application we are testing. Currently the UN/PWD's are transmitted via http. I can capture the username just fine. However, the the password contains the # which wireshark either omits to display or shows the % in place of the #. The # is valid as the UN/PWD combination works. asked 21 Dec '12, 11:37  rojasj edited 22 Dec '12, 03:53  SYN-bit ♦♦ |
One Answer:
I bet the "%" sign is followed by 23, together that makes %23, which is the HTTP url encoding string for the character "#". In short, your browser translates "#" to "%23" to prevent interpretation problems between the client and the server. The server translates the "%23" back to "#". Wireshark just shows you the raw data as it is sent over the network. answered 21 Dec '12, 11:59 SYN-bit ♦♦ |
