Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] repeated "\"

[Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafalov@xxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds to me like an application problem. Backslashes are usually
something you escape, so maybe you have a runaway backslash escaping
routine that gets cought in the infinite loop.

Check if that that particular conversation _ever_ gets beyond
backslashes or if just keeps doing it until the connection is closed
(indicating buffer overflow perhaps). Otherwise, export the
conversation and check how many of those characters you end up with;
that might be a clue.

Regards,
   Alex.

On 6/7/05, Hongyu Zhang <forward@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am using ethereal to debug one of my dynamic web pages because it is
> too slow. I observed the delay was probably caused by many segments
> marked as "Continuation or non-HTTP traffic" that only contain
> repeated "\" characters. They are coded by "5c" shown in ethereal.
> 
> What do those mean please? Sorry if this is a newbie question. Thanks!