Re: [Wireshark-dev] Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

2012-03-05 Thread Jeff Morriss
Bill Meier 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.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

2012-03-05 Thread Guy Harris
On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Anders Broman wrote: > 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 som

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

2012-03-05 Thread Anders Broman
Anders Broman skrev 2012-03-05 20:03: 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 ha

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

2012-03-05 Thread Anders Broman
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

Re: [Wireshark-dev] Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

2012-03-05 Thread Tyson Key
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 re