Hi, I am pretty new to all of this, so not sure if what I am trying to do is possible. My end goal is to see the URLs visited from each computer/phone that hits my WiFi at home. I have used OpenDNS which is fine for the domain name, but I want more detail. I downloaded wireshark and tested it out. I was able to successfully see every URL the computer hit over the capture period. Now I want to see that same info on other devices. I am running Windows. From reading here, it looks like I need to buy AIRPCAP in order to do this. However, I haven't been able to find a straight answer on whether it will get the URLs. Can someone please provide a straight answer to the following? If I purchase AIRPCAP and run it with wireshark, will I be able to see every URL that other devices on my WiFi hit? In particular, there is only 1 device I am most concerned with, so I can filter the capture to only hit that one device. I just really want to know whether I will be able to see the full URL. When I was capturing on my computer, I was able to see the full link, and could click on it to go to the exact page that the computer was on. That is what I want to be able to do for other devices (really just 1 in particular.) asked 12 Oct '15, 03:44  questions123 |
One Answer:
The answer to your question is YES - if you capture the WiFi frames, you will be able to view the URL. Now, as @Jaap has eluded to, there are many assumptions that are made here:
So yes, AIRPCAP can work. But it is an expensive solution ($700 for a WiFi adapter!!!). There are other cheaper and IMHO better ways than using AIRPCAP to capture WiFi frames. answered 12 Oct '15, 10:51  Amato_C |
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