Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] HTTP chunked encoding patch

[Biot Olivier <Olivier.Biot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for this valuable contribution!!!

I extensively tested your patch, and it works in all situations... Except
for the odd case where a zero-length chunked-coded answer is generated, as
the whole (undecoded) chunk is passed to the subdissector and in fact
nothing should be passed to it in this peculiar situation.

I refer to the following MMSE capture sent on ethereal-users:
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200404/msg00185.html

The fault can be reproduced with the attached 2-packet capture extracted
from the capture attached to the referred message.

If you could provide a fix for this, I'll check in your code tonight.

Regards,

Olivier

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Jerry Talkington
|
|Howdy List!
|
|Here's a patch to add support for decoding chunked 
|transfer-encoded HTTP
|entities.  I also updated my email address.
|
|I had originally started by using composite tvbuffs, but 
|backed out when
|I found out that they're not really ready for prime time.  I left the
|code in, commented out, but I can resubmit with out it (or with any
|other changes.)

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