Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Turn Truncation off

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Habib wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I just started using Wireshark, and I noticed that if a string in a 
> packet is too long, Wiresharks truncates it and append [truncated] to 
> the string. My question is: is there a way to turn truncation off, or to 
> increase the maximum untruncated string size. I tried to search in the 
> archives of this mailing list for an answer with no success.

Not without recompiling the software. Wireshark has a fixed-size buffer 
for some things (ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH).  That size can be made bigger at 
the expense of extra memory usage, even for the common case of shorter 
strings.  Making the size dynamic appears non-trivial.