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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] HTTP filter

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:04:26 -0700
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:59:07PM -0600, David Alanis wrote:

> But maybe ultimately the /usr/share/wireshark/services file determines 
> what port will be treated as that specific type of traffic?

>From the top of the services file:

"Wireshark uses it to resolve port numbers into human readable service 
names, e.g. TCP port 80 -> http."

It isn't used otherwise.