Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [PATCH] New menu items to copy packet data

From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:01:39 +0100
Stephen Fisher wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:22:15AM -0000, Douglas Pratley wrote:
Are there any other encodings / decodings it would be worth having available (uuencode? zip?). This might be better done as a full "Select bytes and decode / encode" feature rather than something in a copy menu.
Good point. For viewing encoded e-mail contents, uudecode support may be useful, though it's not very popular these days as far as I can tell. We could go the whole way and even add viewers for images contained within capture files. I'm not sure how useful this would be?

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail ;-)))

Ok, serious again, this is more of a question about a general way to copy/export/display "generic objects". Why not be able to copy/export/display a picture from a HTTP capture, or a HTML page, or ...

Other analyzers will provide you with a list of files, derived from the captured HTTP packets, with an option to display/export it.

That reminds me of the media dissector which already gets in that direction - we are getting more and more into the application layer - and I like it :-)

Regards, ULFL