> OCTET STRING means a sequence of octets opaque to the protocol nothing to do > with STRING as in text. > an implementation of the protocol can chose to put text in an OCTET STRING. > For example UserID := OCTET STRING can contain 0xfffff or "MyID". > You can use #.TYPE_ATTR to change hf definition but formally you should > probably put code in the conformance > file to check if the OCTET STRING contains printable characters and then > output it as a string. Unless theres > is something in the protocol description saying that the OCTET STRING should > contain text there is no > guarantee that it will. > Regards > Andes
Thanks. You're right of course that I should do checking. What I was getting at was why doesn't it output the FT_STRING type into the HF array? Regards Risto ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
