Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] capture HTTP and gzip content-encoding

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From: Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:25:49 -0700
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:28:43PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to capture packets from HTTP servers, which accept gzip 
> content-encoding.
> 
> However, when I capture these packets, they are NOT compress in Ethereal.
> Server's log show that the files sent were gzipped though, and logs even 
> show the ratio.
> 
> So what am I missing?
> 
> Is ethereal decompressing this gzipped content, or do I have to look for 
> an error somewhere else (where?)?

If you've enabled decompression of HTTP data, then yes, it will
gunzip/deflate them.  It should be pretty clear that the original
packets were compressed, by looking at the packet details frame.

If you haven't enabled/disabled decompression of HTTP data, then the
server logs are incorrect, and the packets aren't being gzipped.

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