Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Using the display filter with HTTP header fields

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:57:14 -0800
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:11:11PM +0200, Ori Pelz wrote:
> Is there a way to configure a display filter to filter packets according to
> different
> HTTP header fields like cookie, proxy, connection, referrer etc.?

No.

> If not, can the dev team consider adding such filter fields in future
> version ?

No, because there really isn't a "dev team" - there's just a bunch of
people writing and contributing code, a subset of whom can contribute
code by checking it in rather than by sending a patch to somebody who
can check it in, but even that subset isn't a "dev team" in the sense of
being a set of people who "own" Ethereal and decide what features to
add, create roadmaps, etc..

I.e., those filter fields will show up iff some individual decides to
write code to add them and contributes the code; this is a variant of

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q1.3