Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] rsync protocol: probably a dumb question...

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:32:53 -0700

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 2:03 AM, Brad Hards wrote:

The code that I wrote for rsync is really, really rough. The rsync protocol is quite hard to work out - there are no "per packet" headers, so if you don't have the whole thing, it is very difficult to tell if the packet is showing part of the file being transferred, or some control commands, or some other
text.

Yes, that's what I suspected was the case, which is why I said "if it's even fixable" - I suspected it was difficult, and perhaps impossible, to fix.