Re: Dissectors Calling Libraries/Making Network Requests

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan () acmepacket com>]

Holy crap - what spec is that??
-hadriel

On Nov 9, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Billy Prin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing my first dissector for an internal protocol. Part of the protocol is based on a spec that must be 
> obtained via a web service based on its ID. So in order to obtain the information needed to dissect the data I need 
> to make a web request to the service. What I'd like to do is just use something like curl in my dissector to send a 
> request when the tree is opened to dissect the payload data.  There would probably need to be a different request for 
> any two packets. The request should be fast but I can't guarantee that.  I wasn't sure if this was a reasonable idea 
> and if there are any stumbling blocks I should be aware of. Thanks a lot if anyone has advice.
>
> Bill Prin
> <ATT00001..c>

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