Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] HTTP gzip/deflate decompression patch - zlib and gzip on Win3

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From: "'Jerry Talkington'" <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:59:33 -0700
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:12:31PM +0200, Olivier Biot wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
> 
> After having tweaked the MSVC++ build environment I finally found the
> reason why it was not properly dissecting gzip encapsulated content. I
> checked in a fix and then I was able to compile Ethereal and test.
> 
> I also tested on gcc/cygwin and I got the same results (but
> compilation took fairly longer to complete).

Hmm, that was my mistake, using NULL instead of '\0', which would have
been better programming practice in any event.
 
> One last remark: I've noticed that you don't provide access to the
> uncompressed data. Maybe we can provide a subtree item in the HTTP
> tree (I'd like to have some comments from other fallows here).

In which case is it not available?  If the data is passed to a
subdissector, clicking on that subdissector's subtree selects all of the
uncompressed data.  If there is no subdissector, it should be displayed
as "data."

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