Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Represent byte array longer than MAX_BYTE_STR_LEN as hexstri
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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 19:31:49 -0700
On Aug 3, 2019, at 7:27 PM, Jason Cohen <kryojenik2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 9:15 PM Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Aug 3, 2019, at 4:39 PM, Jason Cohen <kryojenik2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> I've got a lengths of bytes that I need to read from the tvb and render as a hex string that are / may be longer than MAX_BYTE_STR_LEN which is defined as 48.  I do not need the actual bytes from the tvb after I render it as a hexstring.
>> 
>> Render where?
> 
> In the packet detail.  

OK, so we could increase MAX_BYTE_STR_LEN to, say, 256, but:

	1) that wouldn't handle an *arbitrary* length - it'll *still* get cut off at 240 bytes;

	2) it'd be a lot of hex digits to stare at, possibly requiring horizontal scrolling.

How big can this field get?