Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] TCP Decoding differences between Ethereal0.99 and Wireshar

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 07:38:41 +0100 (CET)
Hi,

Use the undo_fix_852.patch to, well, undo the the fix.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Small, James wrote:

> Thank you Steve, I believe you are right.
>
> Jaap/Ulf - I know you are busy and this does not appear to be a high
> priority bug.  Is there any work around to "disable" the bug 852 fix so
> that if you want to easily display TCP stream text and are willing to
> except the crash risk you can?
>
> Thanks,
>   --Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > Except--when I follow the TCP stream with Ethereal 0.99, this works
> > great.  However, when I do the same thing with Wireshark 0.99.3/4
> > (I've tried 0.99.3 and just uninstalled/re-installed 0.99.4), the
> > password does not appear in the ASCII/Raw decoding screens.
>
> This appears to be related to bug #1043:
>
>   http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1043
>
> The work-around has caused the last character of each packet to be
> dropped, which is where the username and password characters are in a
> telnet session.
>
>
> Steve
>
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Index: gtk/follow_dlg.c
===================================================================
--- gtk/follow_dlg.c	(revision 18001)
+++ gtk/follow_dlg.c	(revision 18000)
@@ -985,7 +985,6 @@
 #endif
 
 #if GTK_MAJOR_VERSION >= 2 || GTK_MINOR_VERSION >= 3
-    gboolean line_break = FALSE;
     /* While our isprint() hack is in place, we
      * have to use convert some chars to '.' in order
      * to be able to see the data we *should* see
@@ -995,21 +994,11 @@
 
     for (i = 0; i < nchars; i++) {
         if (buffer[i] == '\n' || buffer[i] == '\r')
-        {
-            line_break = TRUE;
             continue;
-        }
         if (! isprint(buffer[i])) {
             buffer[i] = '.';
         }
     }
-
-    /* XXX - workaround for bug 852
-     * Force a line break so that the text view 
-     * doesn't blow up on excessive long lines.
-     */
-    if (line_break == FALSE)
-        buffer[--i] = '\n';
 #endif
 
 #if GTK_MAJOR_VERSION < 2