["Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

That sounds to me like a very worthwhile and valuable project for Ethereal.
I am certain there are other protocols as well where this functionality will
come in handy,
maybe IPSec used with a compression transform instead of a encryption
transform (IPComp).

I have not looked into the problemspace but maybe one can utilize functions
from libz which we already
link with in most cases (and where libz is not available the API would just
return NULL instead of a tvbuff*?)

I say, good idea and useful, try to make the API generic enough so that it
will be easy for those that come later to
just plug into it to enable this for whatever other protocols might do
compression.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Talkington"
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:34 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] Moving the uncompress_packet function
inpacket-slsk.c


> Howdy Folks!
>
> I was looking at adding gzip/deflate decompression in HTTP packets, and
> it appears that there is already code for decompression in
> packet-slsk.c.  It's now static as uncompress_packet().
>
> I'm proposing a move it to tvbuff.c as
> tvbuff_t *tvb_uncompress(tvbuff_t *tvb, int offset, int comprlen);
>
> Let me know if that's acceptable, or what else to do, and I'll go ahead
> and add gzip decoding (with an option) to HTTP.
>