Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Follow TCP Stream - illegible

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:51:23 -0800 (PST)
> I am new to Ethereal, please excuse my ignorance. After capturing a series
> of packets by setting filer to "host hostname and port 443", I used the
> "Follow TCP Stream" facility trying to view the packet content.
> Unfortunately, I only see illegible characters.

Well, SSL being an encrypted protocol, you're not necessarily going to
see text.

For better or worse, "Follow TCP Stream" means "show me the raw bytes of
the TCP stream as if they were text", not "show me a user-friendly
display of the TCP stream", and, unfortunately, the raw bytes of an SSL
stream aren't text.