Re: Hierarchy of fields & offsets

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jul 25, 2017, at 3:26 PM, Sultan, Hassan via Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> wrote:

> Any reason why this is done in this way?

I don't know, but, whatever it is, it's not a *good* reason.

Perhaps they didn't know how to handle a request whose length isn't known until you finish dissecting it.  The answer 
is "give it an initial length of -1, to cover the rest of the data, and then set the length at the end"; I've changed 
the MySQL dissector in the master and 2.4 branches to do that.
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