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Re: Turn Truncation off


From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:23:55 -0500

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.
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