Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] How do I register a sub-dissector for HTTP2?

From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 09:30:15 -0700
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:05:33PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>> On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:19 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Let's say I want to register a sub-dissector for HTTP2 on port 50051,
>> > how do I do that?
>>
>> Step 1: add support to the HTTP/2 dissector for actually parsing
>> headers and, based on the content type etc., handing the dissector off
>> to the appropriate sub-dissector.
>>
>> Step 2: register the sub-dissector in whatever table the code added in
>> Step 1 uses.
>
> Header reassembly is currently implemented in the master version (and
> the 2.4 branch). For data reassembly you will need a patch like this:
> https://code.wireshark.org/review/20737

Hmmm, that is interesting, but for what I have in mind I can use the
existing stuff. I have added support for sub-dissectors and may post a
patch when I get further along with what I am planning on doing.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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