> For protocols like http/ftp/tftp which > carry data, it > would be nice to have a subsystem that could reassamble that > data and allow > you to do things like save it as a file, pipe it (or pass it as an > argument) to an arbitrary program or decode it with an arbitrary > dissector. So for example you could pipe an image to XV or some such > program to view it.
It definitely does seem worthwhile to me. Also, I saw other sniffers that do this already. V.