Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Follow TCP stream

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From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:40:32 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

My guess is you have a lot of binary data in your TCP stream. Then you're
bitten by bug 852. I've been playing with some 'solutions' but haven't
received favorable responses yet.

Thanx,
Jaap

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, fabio matturro wrote:

> Hello,
>
> when I select the option 'Follow TCP stream' on any of my_proto packets
> ethereal receives an X Window System error. here is the whole message:
>
> "This error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
> erro'.  (Details: 384851 error_code 16 request_code 95 minor_code 0) (Note
> to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you
> will receive the erorr a while after causing it. [...]
>
> Do I get this message because I haven't initialized any conversation in my
> plugin?
> Should I use conversation to handle my_proto TCP stream?
>
> thank you
>
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