Re: Store selected Wireshark prefs in pcapng capture file ?

[Tyson Key <tyson.key () gmail com>]

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
>
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