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Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:44:21 -0800
On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Dirk Jagdmann <doj () cubic org> wrote:
I also doubt that 95% of the use cases are asking for reported/captured length. Personally I typically work on code to show the user protocol (SSL, HTTP, DCE/RPC) and if a frame was truncated while capturing (captured_length < actual_length) I can often not continue with dissecting the user protocol, since I miss parts of the data.
You *can* continue dissecting the protocol. You just get an exception, so that the user sees that the data was in the packet, but the snapshot length was set too short to capture it. Stopping dissection just because the data to be dissected was cut off by a snapshot length is entirely the wrong thing to do, as it can make it look as if the packet didn't have the data in question. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length, (continued)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jakub Zawadzki (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Gilbert Ramirez (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Hadriel Kaplan (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Alexis La Goutte (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Dirk Jagdmann (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Dirk Jagdmann (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Hadriel Kaplan (Feb 18)