Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] [Fwd: Re: Newbie Q - Displaying TCP data content in a column..

From: Kevin Hawkins <wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:07:54 +0000
I'm sort of hoping that the great people who maintain WireShark may have

read this and might have logged it and add it as a feature.

Is that optimistic and if so should I be posting a request request elsewhere (where ?) ?

Chris

Stephen Fisher wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Stig Bj�rlykke wrote:
2008/11/25 Kevin Hawkins <wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

- just one last bit - can I get that data displayed in the column in ASCII ?
I don't think you can do this with the current implementation.

But I can see several possible enhancements to make this work:
- Add a (hidden?) entry in the data dissector, named data.text.
- Add a preference to the data dissector to display as HEX or text.

Hidden field = bad :)

How about two visible fields for the data disssector - one that shows bytes and the other text? FT_BYTES cuts it off after 'x' number of characters, we could have the text do the same perhaps. It would be handy so you don't have to look in the hex output below to see plain text when looking at unrecognized traffic.


Steve

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