Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Link from the packet list context menu to the corresponding wiki page ... enabled

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> If you select a protocol in the packet details pane, and right click to 
> get the context menu, I've added a menu item "Online Protocol Info" 
> which will open a simple_dialog explaining that we are going to open a 
> web browser with the corresponding wiki page. If the user clicks "Ok" 
> exactly that will happen, and at "Cancel" nothing (well, as one might 
> expect ;-)

If the user clicks "OK", we should also remember that fact - in the 
"recent" file, so that they don't get asked that question every time 
they select a protocol.

> 2.) this feature uses the abbreviated protocol name, e.g. "tcp". As we 
> might not want to have some sort of translation list (from abbrev to 
> wiki protocol name), we have to rename all protocol related pages

...but we probably want to have redirections for the old names.

Should newly-added pages have redirections as well?  People might expect 
a page for the Random Data Transmission Protocol either to be named 
"Random Data Transmission Protocol" or "RDTP" rather than "rdtp", but if 
they'd only be going there through links, it probably wouldn't matter.