Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Display filters 'ymsg' and 'yhoo'

[Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:41:40PM +0200, Martin Regner wrote:
> Fred O'Leary wrote:
> 
> <Hi, I'm looking at traces of HTTP messages that contain yahoo 'YMSG' payloads. 
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> <However the display filters don't seem to work. Is there anyway to inspect 
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> <the content of these messages (other than raw byte displays?)
> 
> So the messages aren't decoded as YMSG?
> 
> A display filter will only work if the packets are decoded as that protocol.
> 
> I'm not so familiar with Yahoo Messenger and YMSG, but the following documents
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> seems to indicate that both YMSG over TCP and YMSG over HTTP are possible.
> 
> http://jymsg9.sourceforge.net/
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> http://libyahoo2.sourceforge.net/ymsg-9.txt
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> Ethereal currently only support YMSG directly over TCP, not YMSG over HTTP.
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> 
> 
> Maybe it isn't so difficult to add support for YMSG over HTTP.

It doesn't look like it would be.  If someone provides me with a YMSG
over HTTP trace, I can implement it.

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