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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Correct way of adding a HTTP subdissector on port 80 with no

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:44:50 -0700
On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:

> After some more digging I found that the HTTP dissector does not
> search for and call subdissectors if there are no unprocessed bytes
> left in the packet. Does this mean that it's impossible to do any
> custom processing of HTTP GET requests in a subdissector,

Yes.

What sort of custom processing are you trying to do?