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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark showing null values in the generated pdml file

From: "siri m" <svu004@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:20:31 -0700
Hi Abhik,
From the bug 1110 details, it looks like from the bug fix, the attribute values for showname and value are null for the smpp message (since it contains data of not fixed format). But, is there a way to get the showname and values present in the smpp message? (previously with tethereal, we used to convert the smpp capture file to pdml format and then, parse the pdml file to get the contents...). Is there an alternative method to find the details of the showname and value. Any suggestions would be quite helpful,
<field name="smpp.message" showname="Message" size="77" pos="115" show=""value=""/>
Thanks, 
Siri
>Abhik wrote:
>This is because of the fix for bug 1110
>(https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1110). Since the
>exact type of the data in the short_message field is not fixed (it can
>be text in different character sets or binary), its field type is
>FT_NULL. You can see the details and progress of the mentioned bug for
>more details.

>HTH
>Abhik.