Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] binary or acsii

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From: Pierre-Paul Lavoie <ppl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 01:47:45 -0400
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:19:59PM -0500, Archis Raje wrote:
[...]
> My problem is, the packets corresponding to the attachment must
> be in binary. so if I consider 8 bit lengths, their values must
> range from 0 to 256.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uuencode&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html

> however in my case it never goes beyond 126. which means they are
> 7 bit ascii. can someone tell me how I can capture the packets if
> I am expecting pure binary data.

	Ethereal capture "binary data". The reason why the values
are only valid ASCII values is probably because the e-mail attachements
are uuencode'd. Check the raw e-mail message you are sending to
convince yourself.

I hope this help,
ppl