Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] OpenPGP key retrieval over HTTP - add a new port to HTTP or a

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From: "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:59:11 -0500
Seems like it would be good to be able to say "here's a protocol that
runs on http, and is on this other port", and register that with the
http dissector to be called as a application level dissector of the http
data stream.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@xxxxxxx
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yaniv Kaul [mailto:ykaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:51 AM
> To: ethereal-dev
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] OpenPGP key retrieval over HTTP - add 
> a new port to HTTP or a new service
> 
> 
> The protocol to retrieve keys from PGP servers is HTTP 1.0 running on 
> port 11371.
> Instead of using 'Decode As', I thought I'd add 11371 as another port 
> for HTTP.
> Does that make sense, or would it be better to create a new protocol, 
> just so we'll know it's not 'just' HTTP, but HTTP for PGP 
> keys, and then 
> dissect it using the HTTP dissector?
> A
> 
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