Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Displaying/Dissecting Compressed data

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From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 12:47:12 +1030
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Currently working on a dissector that will decompress
> > some data and display it, Wellfleet compression for you
> > Wellfleet/BayNetworks/Nortel fans.  I am wondering how
> > to handle the data after is decompressed.
> 
> This is an issue for encrypted data as well.

And for multimedia, such as images, sound and voice.

> (There are a variety of ways to add it to the hex dump pane; we could
> have it added to the end, after the raw data, or we could have a tabbed
> widget with a tab for "raw data" and additional tabs added as necessary
> for decrypted, decompressed, etc. data.)

A tabbed widget might work better for multimedia, as the
expensive decoding then only needs to done on demand.

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 Glen Turner                                 Network Engineer
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