Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Follow TCP Stream decoder plugins?

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 14:46:50 +0200
Olaf van der Spek wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to write a TCP stream decoder plugin that'd decode a
>(binary) TCP stream (in the follow TCP stream window)?
>For example, I'd like to decode a BitTorrent stream this way.
>  
>
Hi!

IMHO, you should write a dissector for this.

Other TCP based dissectors use the conversation feature available (don't
get confused by the conversation dialog which is a slightly different
thing).

You'll first write a dissector which uses the TCP conversation to get
the right way of decoding the packets.

Sorry, didn't do that myself before, someone else might give you more
details (and have a look at the file doc/Readme.developer)

Regards, ULFL