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Re: Send info to plugin


From: fab12 () freesurf fr
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:27:29 +0200


On Oct 7, 2011, at 1:19 AM, fab12 () freesurf fr wrote:

Is there any way to send some information to a plugin dissector from the
wireshark GUI interface?

What sort of information?


Typically a filename + Directory where the the plugin dissector would
write some statistic information.

For instance using a wireshark menu to set some variable that will be
accessible from the plugin.

As Anders suggested, you *can* give it global information through a
preference setting.

We should probably also add a notion of "conversations" available to
dissectors at multiple layers (a notion more general than the current
address-and-port-endpoint-pair notion, that can include multiple address
layers, "circuits" for protocols that have a virtual circuit ID of some
sort, and conversations at layers above the transport layer), and
per-"conversation" settings as well, with Wireshark offering a GUI to let
you select a conversation and set one or more of a set of
dissector-specified parameters.

Or maybe it is possible to add a menu from the plugin?

A menu item to do what?


I imagine a menu that would open a popup asking to enter the filename +
directory.


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