Re: asn2wrs conformance TYPE_ATTR problem

[Anders Broman <anders.broman () ericsson com>]

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From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Risto Paasila
Sent: den 3 maj 2011 08:39
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] asn2wrs conformance TYPE_ATTR problem

> > OCTET STRING means a sequence of octets opaque to the protocol nothing 
> > to do with STRING as in text.
> > an implementation of the protocol can chose to put text in an OCTET STRING.
> > For example UserID := OCTET STRING can contain 0xfffff or "MyID".
> > You can use #.TYPE_ATTR to change hf definition but formally you 
> > should probably put code in the conformance file to check if the OCTET 
> > STRING contains printable characters and then output it as a string. 
> > Unless theres is something in the protocol description saying that the 
> > OCTET STRING should contain text there is no guarantee that it will.
> > Regards
> > Andes
>
>
> Thanks. You're right of course that I should do checking.
>
> What I was getting at was why doesn't it output the FT_STRING type into the HF array?
>
> Regards
> Risto
Did I miss something? a arbitrary long field of binary data can not be FT_STRING.
/Anders
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