Dissectors Calling Libraries/Making Network Requests

[Billy Prin <billy3045 () gmail com>]

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

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