A wireshark dissector for the BLIP protocol.
At the time of writing (Dec 2018) an official version of Wireshark that includes the dissesctor is not available. It will be included in version 3.0. A Developer Preview can be downloaded from the Wireshark Developer Preview Downloads page. The version must be at least 2.9.0.
The source code of the BLIP dissector is included in the Wireshark source tree.
Use the official instructions to download and build Wireshark from source.
- You must capture traffic from both the Couchbase Lite client and the Sync Gateway server, otherwise it will not recognized the Websocket upgrade handshake and packets will not be properly dissected as
BLIPpackets. - You must start the capture before the Websocket upgrade handshake for the connection(s) you are interested in, or else any packets part of the connection will not be dissected as
BLIPpackets.