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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] SSL dissector conflicting with dissector plugin

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:10:28 -0800
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:50:31PM +0000, Martin Warnes wrote:

> Checking the SSL preferences I had an entry for RSA keys list; 
> 127.0.0.1,1364,tls,c:\ssltest.key which specified this port so it was 
> correctly attempting to dissect this packet as SSL after all.

It sounds like you are trying to dissect SSL/TLS within SSL/TLS.  The 
dissector is called "ssl" instead of "tls" used above.

> My follow-up question would be; Is it possible to follow the SSL 
> stream when the SSL data is embedded in another protocol? This would 
> be a very useful feature for what I'm working on.

What other protocol would SSL be embedded in?


Steve