Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] [HTTP]Desegmentation/Reassembly of HTTP headers/bodies

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From: Loïc Minier <lool+ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:22:51 +0200
Lo�c Minier <lool+ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx> - Thu, Oct 09, 2003:

>  - some captures of gzipped/deflated HTTP conversation?

 If anyone is interested with "gzip" HTTP sessions, I captured some
 whithout noticing with <http://www.slashdot.org/> simply because the
 replies are not always gzipped. For example images are not gzipped and
 the page content (HTML) is gzipped. I can provide some if your browser
 is not gzip-aware.
   Additional note, some gzipped sessions include a content-length (and
 are reassembled) and some don't.

>  There is a lot of possible enhancements for the packet-http.c
>  routines. I think Ethereal should provide common lzw-compression
>  functions or use a third-party lib to deal with all the compressed data
>  that we can come across, for example in HTTP each "part" of a message
>  (when parsing a multipart message) could be decompressed and passed to
>  an appropriate dissector.

 Anyone has thoughts on building lzw decompression features into
 Ethereal?


    Regards,

-- 
Lo�c Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxxxxx>