All-
I had in my mind that it was possible to add links to tree
items for external (URL) documentation. Now that I look, I see that I must have
been mistaken. Was there ever such a feature or discussion of a feature?
I suppose the idea would be that selecting the field and
some option (menu, shortcut, context menu) would open a browser to a URL associated
with the field by the dissector. It could be a static part of the field
definition (most likely) or even dynamic based on the particular context.
I see that there are links to the wiki for protocols, but
not for fields. Further, the wiki is not the only resource available (or,
horrors, the best). As someone mentioned a while ago, the wiki is more for how
Wireshark works with the protocol, not (I think) to act as the authoritative
reference of the protocol itself. What I propose would be a link to the authoritative
reference (RFC, internal spec, whatever).
Thoughts? Would a patch to add such a feature be looked at
favorably?
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