Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Getting a "raw" binary file with a copy of a frame?

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From: Peter Valdemar Mørch <swp5jhu02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 01:20:56 +0200
I've been wondering about this for some time...

I know I can print a frame with a hex dump, and then write a program to parse the printed hex dump to get a binary copy of each frame, but that seems a round-about way to do it. Or I could use perl and Net::Pcap from CPAN to access the capture file too I guess.

Is this an unusual request? I would have thought it was so very normal and straightforward to want the binary PDU...

(Now I need this as I often need to look at HTTP. And very often it seems that data is contained in a frame where Info == Continuation, and these are not decoded - only presented as "Data (X bytes)" and available in the hex dump. Currently I see the contents in "Follow TCP stream" but was wondering: Surely there must be a way to just save the received, unaltered PDUs, right?)

Sincerely,

Peter

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