Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RE: Access to generalized dissecting

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From: "Allan Clarke" <clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 14:45:12 -0600
>Message: 11
>Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:30:03 -0800
>From: Guy Harris <gharris@...>
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Access to generalized dissecting
>To: Ethereal development <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Allan Clarke wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to do is develop some kind of a plugin that could be
used 
>> to walk the dissected packet's tree and selectively export some of
the 
>> data.
>
>Take a look at tap-protohierstat.c (for an indication of how to write a

>tap that takes the the protocol tree as an argument) and the stuff in 
>plugins/stats_tree (for an indication of how to write a plugin tap).
>
>Walking the tree is left as an exercise to the reader.

This sounds great. Thanks for the push in the right direction, Guy.

Allan