Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Need help on dissecting from multiple frames and scrollbars

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From: Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:08:45 -0800
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 03:54:21PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
[snip] 
> 	2) if the headers include a Transfer-Encoding field with a value 
> 	other than "identity", the length is defined by use of the "chunked" 
> transfer-encoding - or by the end of the connection;
> 
> 	3) if there's a Content-Length header, that specifies the length;
[snip] 
> We should handle (1).  I think we already handle (2), except for the 
> "end of the connection" part, and we already handle (3).  We don't 
> currently handle (4), and we don't handle (5).

And those are not currently handled if the packets arrived out of order,
or were resent, which seems to be a shortcoming of the TCP dissector.

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