i am watching a video stream from a proprietary app and i want to know the URL it’s connecting to. note that in this case, i know the URL that it connects to but am curious how i’d determine it using wireshark.
i have wireshark open and i let it scan for a few seconds. i looked at the results, and all i was able to determine was the url and port of the site that’s providing the stream. there’s a series of URL parameters that are important as well. is there a way with wireshark to see the whole url that the app is connecting to?
There is no such thing as a “whole” url. An application may connect to many servers during it’s lifetime.
There could be different servers for authentication, configuration, logging, data, etc.
Wireshark is a low-level monitoring tool. You can choose to watch the packets of a specific osi-layer and add filters to limit the output. But I don’t think it can aggregate all the incoming connections of a specific application.