Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] New dissector: JPEG File Interchange Format(JFIF)

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 23:10:45 +0100
OK, I'll work on that!

Regards,

Olivier
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris"

> On Jan 7, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> > Inside dissect_packet(), instead of calling calling the 'frame'
> > dissector, a new dissector called 'file' would be called. Whereas
> > 'frame' shows meta-data about the frame (size, capture time, etc), the
> > 'file' protocol shows meta-data about the file (filename, size, mtime,
> > etc.). The JFIF and GIF dissectors are registered to either wtap_encap
> > or something new (wtap_non_packet_file)
> 
> Or "media_type".  Have Wiretap supply a media type string for a 
> WTAP_ENCAP_MEDIA encapsulation.  (Of course, that won't work for files 
> whose contents *don't* have a media type - but given that KDE and 
> GNOME, at least, tend to use media types as file types, I suspect file 
> types that don't have official media types will be given media types by 
> the UNIX+X desktop folks.  I also suspect that most of the media 
> dissectors will be for data with media types, as they'll probably 
> mostly be written for use when dissecting HTTP and the like.)