Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RE: [Ethereal-users] SMTP Decode Defect?

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe we should add some hint to the end-user that the line has been
truncated? E.g., add " [line truncated]" to such a line.

Regards,

Olivier

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Martin Regner
|
|
|Mark Symons wrote:
|<There seems to be a display issue with the 2nd last line of data.  
|<There's a \r\n present in the data that is not represented in 
|the decode.  
|<Shorten the line and the \r\n does now display.  
|<Is this a defect in Ethereal?
|
|I think that this is due to that there will be a truncation 
|when longer than ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH.
|
|#define ITEM_LABEL_LENGTH 240
|
|I have seen similar things with SIP captures with very long lines.
|
|Maybe it would be good to make this length configurable somehow.