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uncompressing a gzip'ed http response that spans multiple packets
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Using ethereal 0.99, I am trying to trace an http response that is
split across multiple packets. For the first packet, I can use the
packet details window to see the text of the response (there's a line
in that pane saying "Line-based text data: text/html"). However, in
subsequent packets, there's no text, just a line that says "Data (xxx
bytes)".

How can I see the unzipped text of each packet?

Thanks...

-- jeff

(newbie here, if this is a faq, please point me in the right place)
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On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:34 PM, ethereal.x.jsd@xoxy.net wrote:

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> Using ethereal 0.99, I am trying to trace an http response that is
> split across multiple packets. For the first packet, I can use the
> packet details window to see the text of the response (there's a line
> in that pane saying "Line-based text data: text/html"). However, in
> subsequent packets, there's no text, just a line that says "Data (xxx
> bytes)".
>
> How can I see the unzipped text of each packet?

You can't. (Is the concept of "the unzipped text of each packet" even
*meaningful*? Can there not be a sequence of compressed bytes that
constitutes a single item in the compressed stream that's split
between two TCP segments, so that neither of them can be decompressed
without the other?)

You can, however, turn on HTTP header and body reassembly in the
preferences for HTTP; that should allow the *entire* body to be
gunzipped.
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