Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] RE : RE : Truncated field in XML detailed export result
Personally I did misunderstand how that field works, which seems pretty
easy to do to me. I captured some traffic and exported it as a
plain-text file but unfortunately all the data wasn't exported (as has
been mentioned because of the way that function works) so I lost some
data I needed.
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:14:51 +0100, "Olivier LENORMAND"
<Olivier.Lenormand@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi Ulf, thx for your explanation.
>
> So the "show" field is something like a "preview" that will only display
> the beginning of an ASCII field?
> This way it's usefull, please keep it :)
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not denigrating anyone's implementation choice
> here, WS is a wonderfull tool and the people behind it deserve our daily
> thanks.
> In this case, it's just that I never imagined that the "show" field was
> not completed, so the lazy man I am used it while parsing the XML export
> in order to avoid decoding the value field by myself.
> As a conclusion, should the WS documentation just specify that this
> field may not be complete, both on the screen an in the exported file?
>
> Thanks, Olivier.
>
> Olivier LENORMAND wrote:
> > If it's a "feature", I guess we'll have to do with it by never
> > trusting the "show" field and always decoding the "value" field.
> >
> You can trust the show field that it will contain what you will see on
> the screen. This is something completely different (tm) from the value
> field.
> > But I do agree with you, it's at least disturbing :)
> > My two cents: let's not export the "show" field in the XML file, imho
> > no information is better than unannonced truncaded one. Anyone has a
> > better idea about this problem?
> >
> Just because you can't use it in the way you use it, doesn't mean that
> it's useless for others.
>
> Regards, ULFL
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