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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Help - GZIP content decoding

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From: Nate Howe <nehowe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 06:25:54 -0600
It is HTTP and I've tried with two versions of Ethereal: 0.10.7 and
0.10.6.  When I view a TCP stream I can see in the HTTP headers that
it's gzip-encoded HTML and I do see the bytestream below the headers. 
I'm using Windows XP SP1 and I've even booted into Knoppix 3.2 (which
has Ethereal included, version 0.9.something).  When I open the same
capture file from there it still won't decode.  This thread:

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200311/msg00244.html

shows how one person got it to work, but I was unable to rebuild
zlib.dll using his version of the makefile.  I did rebuild it myself
but as I mentioned, but it would not work.

Any ideas?  Can anyone else view gzip-encoded text or html from a capture? 


On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:56:07 -0700, Jerry Talkington
<jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:56:59AM -0600, Nate Howe wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > No matter what I do I can't get GZIP content decoding to work on
> > captures.  I have tried many things, including rebuilding zlib.dll and
> > replacing zlib1.dll with it (which usually causes a crash in
> > wiretap-0.1.dll).  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> What protocol is this (I'm assuming HTTP, but you never know...)
> 
> Also, what does it do instead of decoding the gzip content (i.e. does it
> just display as bytes, or is there something declaring it as gzip in the
> details pane?)  What version are you using?
> 
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