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How to suppress ASCII length when using tshark to output TCP streams?

asked 2023-11-15 14:01:16 +0000

BramK gravatar image

I captured a simple HTTP request and response in a pcap file. When showing the TCP stream with tshark:

tshark -r output.pcap -Y http -qz follow,tcp,ascii,0

I get the following results:

===================================================================
Follow: tcp,ascii
Filter: tcp.stream eq 0
Node 0: 127.0.0.1:58748
Node 1: 127.0.0.1:4000
157
POST /payload HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4000
User-Agent: curl/8.1.2
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 4
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

bram
    245
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 11
ETag: W/"b-qochATLyV9QKlqXy0HGxicmrkmQ"
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:37:09 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5

{"bram":""}
===================================================================

Is it possible to get rid of the ASCII length (245) in such outputs?

I want to be able to reassemble TCP streams for full HTTP request/response pairs, and analyse them further in a different application.

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Can you post the PCAP of this packet somewhere?

hugo.vanderkooij gravatar imagehugo.vanderkooij ( 2023-11-15 14:21:24 +0000 )edit

thanks for your reply. here is the pcap file: https://we.tl/t-7QIqLOuGsp

BramK gravatar imageBramK ( 2023-11-15 14:33:01 +0000 )edit

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answered 2023-11-15 20:39:01 +0000

Guy Harris gravatar image

Is it possible to get rid of the ASCII length (245) in such outputs?

Not without modifying Wireshark source code.

If by "I want to be able to reassemble TCP streams for full HTTP request/response pairs, and analyse them further in a different application." you mean that some other program will be reading the output of TShark, then that program should read the length, process that many bytes worth of data, and continue.

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