Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Running decode-as over a highlighted portion and saving it to a file

[Tyrone Floryanzia <tfloryanzia@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

This could be very useful.  Has anyone followed up on this?  It would be 
really good to have the ability to decode a highlighted section.

Cheers,
Tyrone

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Andrew Tridgell has written as small patch that allows him to save the 
> highlighted portion of the byte view to a file. His patch is here:
>
> http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/ethereal-rawhex-hack.patch
>
> At the moment it is a simple hack, but it struck me that some code to be 
> added to allow us to:
>
> 1. Save a highlighted region to a file ...
>
> 2. Decode a highlighted region as a selected protocol
>
> I guess that one question I have is how can I retrieve the details of the 
> highlighted region so I can retrieve the highlighted region to stick into 
> a TVB or write to a file? 
>
> Regards
> -----
> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
> sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
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