Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] HTTP gzip/deflate decompression patch - zlibandgzip on Win32

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:44:22 -0700
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:19:10AM +0200, Olivier Biot wrote:
> In my situation it sometimes *is* necessary to see both uncompressed
> *and compressed output, so that we can check that the compression was
> done correctly. If you don't offer this data to the user, it cannot be
> accessed as it's only used internally in the dissection.

...and it might conceivably be useful to dissect the compressed output,
showing the various components of a gzip-compressed stream.