Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Modifications to the LDAP dissector

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Eventually, I would like to be able to switch on or off display of the 
> ASN.1 headers as well, so people can better see what is going on.

The best way to do that is probably to change it to use the new 
packet-ber.c routines - which *automatically* gets you the ability to 
control the display of the ASN.1 BER tag/length information (there's a 
preference in the BER dissector for that), and also gets us one step 
closer to nuking epan/asn1.[ch] (all new dissectors for BER-encoded 
protocols should be done with the packet-ber.c routines - and, ideally, 
with asn2eth.py):

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/Removeold-styleASN.1code

If you're *really* ambitious, taking the ASN.1 from the RFC and using 
asn2eth.py to generate the dissector would handle that and should also 
make the structures display more in line with the RFC.

See

	http://wiki.ethereal.com/Asn2eth

(and pages to which it refers) for information on asn2eth.