Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] About to commit image/gif dissector

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From: ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:47 +0100
I checked it in as packet-image-gif.c

Regards,

Olivier

-- Original message

Hi folks,

I'm about to commit a preliminary Compuserve GIF dissector. Now I have one
question: how should we name such dissectors? As such, they aren't any
packets (well, they're conveyed in packets) and are final (there's no
protocol layer on top of it).

I was thinking at calling it packet-image-gif.c for now, but maybe we should
think about a MIME tree for media types. For instance, the WBXML dissector
is also final in the sense that there aren't any protocol layers on top
of
it (besides maybe of higher-level dialogs).

Does it sound OK to call it media-image-gif instead of packet-image-gif?
And
to use the MIME naming for naming the subsequent "media" dissectors (such
like WBXML for example)?

Small question: is a forward slash allowed in a dfilter field name? It'd
be
nice if we were able to specify "image/gif" or even "image/*" in a dfilter
expression (the latter requiring "*" to be allowed in a dfilter
field/protocol name).

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