Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] SIP display raw text

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From: "Martin Regner" <martin.regner@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:27:04 +0200
 
Russell Anson wrote:
<I have a simple change request for this option.
<Would it be possible to have the "Display raw text for SIP messages" option, 
<under the Preferences menu, replace or override the normal dissector,
<rather than being invoked after it has finished? If the main dissector crashes
<or fails to finish the dissection (resulting in a short frame messge),
<the raw text does not get displayed.
 
I'm using both of them at same time since I often want to look at the raw SIP-message, but
I also want to do easy filtering with "Analyse/Prepare a filter" and also want the SDP
dissector to startup RTP conversations and similar.
 
It might be good to have an option to disable the "tree dissection" for those that want that
and just have the "raw text format", similar to how there is two checkboxes in Megaco dissector.
 
Another alternative could be to use a enum preference that
can used to select between
-Tree Dissection Only
-Tree Dissection+Raw
-Raw+Tree Dissection
-Raw Only.
 
The SIP-dissector in Ethereal 0.10.4 shouldn't crash, I think.
There was a problem in Ethereal 0.10.3.
If you have any remaining crash problems with 0.10.4, please send a bug-report.