Wireshark is not capturing traffic through http://localhost:8888

Question

Currently, my wireshark can capture traffic from http://localhost (traffic that is on port 80) but it won't capture traffic on localhost:8888

Is there any extra configuration/software that I need for wireshark to capture traffic of localhost on this port? I'm running Ubuntu 9.10

Answer 1

What capture and display filters are you using?

Have you tried connecting using your local IP address instead of the loopback interface? That is, try http://192.168.xxx.xxx/ or whatever your local IP is.

Answer 2

In preferences you can set a list of ports that wireshark recognizes as http.

Answer 3

Try 127.0.0.1:8888 instead, I am at school so I can't test this at the moment but that should work.