Re: non-http traffic

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:37:41PM +0200, Pierre-Yves LE BIHAN wrote:
> 
> I've analysed traffic between a W200 workstation and a W2K3 server;
>  I find frames with this information "continuation or non-http traffic".

That means ethereal sees packets on tcp port 80 which don't contain
an http header. This is quite common, since many http-objects are 
larger than 1 tcp packet. Hence the comment "Continuation". You can
probably see an http-packet before those "continuations".

It also means you have some re-assembly settings turned off. Either 
the "reassemble http headers" and "reassemble http bodies" options
are turned off in the http protocol preferences and/or the "allow
subdissector to reassemble tcp streams" option is turned off in the
tcp protocol preferences.

If they were all turned on, you would have seen "tcp segment of a 
reassembled PDU" frames, ending in a http frame, containing the
whole http-request or http-response.

Hope this helps,   Cheers,


Sake