Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Decoding TCP message's data into a readable format

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:26:59 -0700
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:03:03PM -0400, Gilles Galipeau wrote:
> Can I just add a new file called packet-xyz

Yes.

In fact, that's the only way to do it.  The TCP dissector does not know
anything about how to dissect the data in a TCP segment, and it's not
*supposed* to know anything about it - that must be done by the
dissector for the protocol running on top of TCP.