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Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?
From: Anders Broman <a.broman () bredband net>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:03:24 +0100
Hi,I think there is two paths that can be taken either add options and/or blocks as needed to the file format or encode the comment in some way, using the preferences simple format is one option. I'm leaning towards using the comments somehow. One could have Wireshark begin/end tags for
other programs to skip that part of the comments. Regards Anders Tyson Key skrev 2012-03-05 19:39:
Hi Bill, I don't know if the format's developers ever contemplated that use case - although they designed it to be fairly extensible, and I'm sure that someone could design a new type of block that stores serialised application preferences (in compressed XML, JSON, or some other format?), after requesting an type ID for it. I haven't thought too much about how you'd actually go about deciding upon the preferences to store - although adding a universal "Save Current Preferences" option to the file saving dialogue, and having an option in the corresponding file opening dialogue to temporarily import/set those preferences might work. I'm sure that others will come up with better ideas, though... Tyson. On 5 March 2012 18:26, Bill Meier<wmeier () newsguy com> wrote:Would it make any sense to be able to store "application specific" information in a pcapng file ? E.g., selected Wireshark prefs so that Wireshark can act on same ? This would be useful when a capture file reqires specific dissector preferences to properly dissect the file. Would this fit (at all) within the design goals for pcapng ? Is there be a way to do this reasonably cleanly with the existing format ? How might one indicate the prefs which should to be stored ? .... Bill ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list<wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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Current thread:
- Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Bill Meier (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Tyson Key (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Anders Broman (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Anders Broman (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Guy Harris (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Anders Broman (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Jeff Morriss (Mar 05)
- Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ? Tyson Key (Mar 05)