Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Handling Data

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From: Khachaturov Vassilii <Vassilii.Khachaturov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:48:04 -0400
> For protocols like http/ftp/tftp which 
> carry data, it 
> would be nice to have a subsystem that could reassamble that 
> data and allow 
> you to do things like save it as a file, pipe it (or pass it as an 
> argument) to an arbitrary program or decode it with an arbitrary 
> dissector.  So for example you could pipe an image to XV or some such 
> program to view it.

It definitely does seem worthwhile to me. Also, I saw other sniffers that
do this already.

V.