>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:02:02PM -0500, Oleg Zolotykh wrote: >> I have encounter a problem while using Ethereal Network Analyzer. It deals >> with long values of the attributes in LDAP protocol. The values which are >> longer than approximately 150 characters are not displayed. > >> I'd like to know if there is a way to change this limitation. It would be >> nice to set a number of characters to be displayed and truncate the others >> for instance. >> Looks like the problem has to do with proto_tree_set_string() function in >> proto.c file.
Guy Harris wrote: >The truncation is the result of the way the buffer for the >displayable/printable string for a field is allocated; they are >fixed-length buffers, allocated from a GLib "memory chunk", and are >ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH, or 240, bytes long. > >See "proto_tree_set_representation()". > >The way to change the limitation is to change the value for >ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH in "proto.c" and recompile. When I loaded the capture file (Ethereal 0.9.7, 0.9.5 - Windows 98) the decoding looked OK for frame 51 (or actually the desegmentation of frame 14, 15, 17 .... to 51) the first time when I looked at it. Lines are truncated. I got several GDK warnings when clicking on the packet Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_text_size: gdk_nmbstowchar_ts failed When I later checked frame 51 again all lines that where longer than X bytes was totally empty, i.e. the lines were not truncated, but totally blank. I could see only less than one third of the lines. When printing to file I always get all lines (but truncated), but it seems that it is only the first time after starting Ethereal that all lines sometimes are visible. I have seen some similar problems before where lines has been empty in the Ethereal, but visible in printouts. However what I remember the lines were not so long as in this case, so it might have been some other problem. I think I have seen some messages from others about similar problems a while ago, but I cannot find those messages right now. Regards, Martin
