On 21 Mar, Guy Harris wrote:
> That looks suspiciously similar, in part, to "asn1_length_decode()" in
> "asn1.c". I suspect other ASN.1-reading code is similar to other
> routines in "asn1.c".
>
> You might want to look at the SNMP dissector, and the ASN1 code in
> "asn1.c" - as LDAP is ASN.1-based, you might as well use the existing
> ASN.1 code in Ethereal if possible (and, if not, look at modifying so
> that it *is* possible; the reason why the ASN.1 code is in a separate
> file from "packet-snmp.c" is so that it *can* be used by other
> ASN.1-based protocols, and when I took the GXSNMP ASN.1 code and put it
> into Ethereal, LDAP was one of the protocols I was thinking of...).
Yeah, this is the kind of thing I wanted to know about before I
finished <g>. It shouldn't take me long to convert, I'll still need my
own wrapper functions to handle the automatic populating of the tree.
If that's the only thing wrong, I should have a completed decoder in a
few days.
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