Put all the comments about the "don't check the CRC" flag together, and

expand the resulting comment a bit.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=42390
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Guy Harris 2012-05-02 21:11:28 +00:00
parent 736627bb97
commit e1ee9ca907
1 changed files with 10 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -541,15 +541,6 @@ zlib_read(FILE_T state, unsigned char *buf, unsigned int count)
if (ret == Z_STREAM_END) {
if (gz_next4(state, &crc) != -1 &&
gz_next4(state, &len) != -1) {
/*
* XXX - compressed Windows Sniffer don't
* all have the same CRC value; is it just
* random crap, or are they running the
* CRC on a different set of data than
* you're supposed to (e.g., not CRCing
* some of the data), or something such
* as that?
*/
if (crc != strm->adler && !state->dont_check_crc) {
state->err = WTAP_ERR_DECOMPRESS;
state->err_info = "bad CRC";
@ -869,8 +860,16 @@ file_open(const char *path)
#ifdef HAVE_LIBZ
/*
* If this file's name ends in ".caz", it's probably a compressed
* Windows Sniffer file. The compression is gzip, but they don't
* bother filling in the CRC; we set a flag to ignore CRC errors.
* Windows Sniffer file. The compression is gzip, but if we
* process the CRC as specified by RFC 1952, the computed CRC
* doesn't match the stored CRC.
*
* Compressed Windows Sniffer files don't all have the same CRC
* value; is it just random crap, or are they running the CRC on
* a different set of data than you're supposed to (e.g., not
* CRCing some of the data), or something such as that?
*
* For now, we just set a flag to ignore CRC errors.
*/
suffixp = strrchr(path, '.');
if (suffixp != NULL) {