Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ntlmssp auth3 dissector

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From: dheitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 17:23:01 -0400 (EDT)
Quoting Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> We don't have a general universal Ethereal-wide approach for handling
> Unicode strings, but we don't need one in order to eliminate the
> duplicate code - we just need to make the "packet-smb.c" version of
> "get_unicode_or_ascii_string()" take a "Unicode or not" flag rather than
> a "packet_info *" as an argument, change its callers appropriately, and
> make it not static.  That's what I've done (and I moved it to
> "packet-smb-common.c").
> 

My original code did just that.  I was hesitant to commit it this way though as I was concerned about hacking up packet-smb (which I don't own), by replacing the pinfo argument.

Thanks for you help,

Devin Heitmueller
Senior Software Engineer
Netilla Networks Inc