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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] http Content-Encoding: gzip not decoding

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:14:15 +0200
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:57:58PM -0700, Barry Gould wrote:
> Hi, I too am having problems with Wireshark (1.0.2 from Fedora 9) not
> decoding gzip'd http traffic.
> 
> I'm trying to view the transcript with the "follow tcp stream" command,
> and all the html is compressed.

The "follow tcp stream" command collects all TCP data, which of course
is still compressed. The decompressed data is (only) visible in the packet
details pane under http and in the packet bytes pane in the "uncompressed
entity body" tab.


Cheers,
     Sake