Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Question regarding tcp dump

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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:44:36 -0700
Trying to trace a packet which seems to be getting lost.  Customer is
receiving an Internal Server 500 error. 
 
When looking at the TCP Stream for that transaction we see a number of
repeated characters such as iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii   and
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  Is there a document shows what this may mean or
do you have any ideas what would cause this to show up in the stream.

Here is the last portion of the stream:


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------

25lbnQgOCANL0NvbG9y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YbuBTgeeBTlbngUN1yTSNwcnrSSccnr
TM1Hmos5pKTNJSHrRRSqcHNOXg5oU7TmpA3PA4qQNjp0qRZj6cUjNk+lNZsn0oL5PpTd3Q0h
bHNIWPWl30b6N/FJuajcaaSaQsefWkLkZ9aQt+dMAJODTcbiKQ5pxUdzSkeppOD1NJjAyOaT
7q8c0h6UuO5NLg9SetIQT3pDgdKawA6UcDpTCccVGaZSE8c0HnrRk4pCvGaGXA9qXadue1IF
OKVcqOBSqxUcCroq7WhSiikpaKKUUUtLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:30:54 GMT
Server: WebLogic Server 8.1 SP3 Tue Jun 29 23:11:19 PDT 2004 404973
Content-Length: 883 Content-Type: text/html Connection: Close  
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Draft//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Error 500--Internal Server Error</TITLE>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="WebLogic Server">
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="white">
<FONT FACE=Helvetica><BR CLEAR=all>
<TABLE border=0 cellspacing=5><TR><TD><BR CLEAR=all>
<FONT FACE="Helvetica" COLOR="black" SIZE="3"><H2>Error 500--Internal
Server Error</H2>
</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<TABLE border=0 width=100% cellpadding=10><TR><TD VALIGN=top WIDTH=100%
BGCOLOR=white><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT FACE="Helvetica"
SIZE="3"><H3>From RFC 2068 <i>Hypertext Transfer Protocol --
HTTP/1.1</i>:</H3>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H4>10.5.1 500 Internal Server
Error</H4>
</FONT><P><FONT FACE="Courier New">The server encountered an unexpected
condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.</FONT></P>
</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
 
 
 
Brian Foran
Network Engineer
o: 714.541.9960 x 12258
c: 714.474.6946
bforan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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