Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] enhancement idea...

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:38:21 -0600
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 05:11:37PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 	an HTTP conversation could involve all HTTP traffic between the
> 	given client host and the given server (and perhaps, if you're
> 	feeling sufficiently perverse, if the stuff coming back from the
> 	server is "text/html", scan it for URLs and include fetches of
> 	those URLs from other servers, e.g. banner ads...);

And even more perverse, if the contents of an entire file are present
throughout the HTTP or TFTP or FTP packet sequence, the ability to
reconstruct the actual file and save it to disk would be ultra-cool.
Then you can easily see what kind of jpeg's your users are downloading
via HTTP.... :)

> At some point, we might want to think about doing our own CList
> replacement, with:

agreed. That will get rid of that AIX problem where the Clist occured
in ethereal and in gtk.

--gilbert