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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] map decoding problems

From: Cristian Constantin <cristian.constantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:20:00 +0100
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:09:37PM +0100, Anders Broman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:33:26PM +0100, Anders Broman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I have checked in a fix in revision 2731, formally I think the frame 
> >> is wrongly Encoded as the tag [3] is missing but from comments in the 
> >> code It looks like this is common 

[...]

cristian: is there a way that ws shows some warning that:

- the actual encoding is broken (i.e. not standard, in our case UNIVERSAL
  tag is used instead of the CONTEXT one which is forced by the
  definition)

- it is (heuristically) trying to decode the message anyway?

thanks a lot!
bye now!
cristian