Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] General plugins

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 11:42:46 -0700 (PDT)
> This is a neat idea. It would make programming such modules less
> hackish. When I wrote the tcp graphing code I missed some sort of
> internal (plugin, if you will) API that would enable me to say "dear
> ethereal core, give me IP header of frame #66 or NULL if there isn't
> any".

Hmm.

How about "dear Ethereal core, give me the protocol tree for this frame,
give me the header field IDs of particular fields, and let me search a
protocol tree for a particular field, and extract its value"?

That does mean a more expensive full dissection is required, though.