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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] cannot get a handle on HTTP dissector

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:52:36 -0700
Steve Grinwis wrote:

There does not appear to be any find_dissector("http") calls anywhere in
the dissector code that I have.  Looking at the packet-http.c code, it
appears as though it doesn't ever register http? Ie:
register_dissector("http", dissect_http, proto_http);

The current SVN version of packet-http.c does make a register_dissector call. It might be that it was added after whatever version of Wireshark/Ethereal code you're using.