Re: simpler dissector architecture for "line based" procotols?

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 03:22:44PM -0400, mmann78 () netscape net wrote:

> I started thinking that there probably is a more general solution to 
> implementing filtering for "line based" protocols (dissectors that 
> look for /r/n and then display each "line" as an "item") .  There are 
> more than a handful of protocols whose dissector has something close 
> the following pseudo logic:

I don't think there is a comprehensive way to support these protocols in 
Wireshark so far.  Ironically, the simple (for humans) plain-text 
protocols that you can telnet to the port and interact with are the most 
difficult to handle in Wireshark.



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