Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Small problem with Follow TCP Stream

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:46:17 -0800 (PST)
Richard Sharpe said:
> If you click on Follow TCP Stream, and then close the window that comes
> up, when you click on Follow TCP Stream again, you get an empty window.

The problem appears to be that "filter_packets()" doesn't do anything if
the new filter is the same as the old one - meaning it won't bother
processing the packets, and thus won't bother to get the packet data.

I'm working on a quick fix that adds a Boolean "force" argument to
"filter_packets()" and "main_filter_packets()", to force the filter to be
run.  There might be a better way to fix it in the long run.