-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Risto Paasila Sent: den 3 maj 2011 08:39 To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] asn2wrs conformance TYPE_ATTR problem
>> 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 Did I miss something? a arbitrary long field of binary data can not be FT_STRING. /Anders ___________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
