Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Newbie Q - Displaying TCP data content in a column..

[Kevin Hawkins <wireshark@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd very much appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right 
direction with this - I know it's not a very exciting question but it 
would really help me resolve an problem I have..  and stepping through 
each packet one by one is very laborious.

  Chris
> Apologies - I'm not very technical but I'm trying to display a new 
> column that just shows the TCP data content of a conversation between 
> two devices. The data is in plain ASCII.
>
> I have setup filters for the IP's involved and if I select individual 
> packess I can see the data in the hierarchical message dissection view 
> below under the data heading.  If I click on the latter part of that 
> data in the hex/ascii pane it kindly highlights just the readable 
> character portion of that data discarding what I assume is earlier 
> binary header info.  This highlighted text is exactly the info I want to 
> see listed in a column against each packet , rather than having to 
> examine each message individually - and even better to filter out all 
> messages not containing such data.  
>
> I'm sure this must be an easy one , and I've looked for a 'data' column 
> type but there isn't one.  Is there an easy way to do this ? 
> Unfortunately I'm not upto writing any C or Lua code....
>
>   Chris
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