Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5819] Not possible to use "@" character in coloring rules.
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5819
--- Comment #5 from Johan Wåhl <plyschbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-04-12 17:33:07 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Yes, the color filter worked as expected; all SIP sessions with the specific
> > Call-ID got the correct color.
> >
> > However, I only tested that one thing; I have not done anything else with
> > Wireshark today. Maybe I should run it like this for a while, to see if I run
> > in to any other issues!?
> >
> > Do you know of any specific functionality I can test, that "should" fail due to
> > my changed code?
>
> The test would be to close wireshark after entering the new coloring rule, then
> open Wireshark again and see whether the filter and coloring is still correct.
>
> Internally wireshark is capable of having this filter. It's in the writing and
> reading of the colorfilters file that fields get separated by the @ character.
> And it is then that things go wrong:
>
> /* retrieve filter expression */ i = 0;
> while (1) {
> c = getc(f);
> if (c == EOF || c == '@')
> break;
>
> (from color_filters.c)
>
>
> So to be able to save and load the colorfilters file, there needs to be code
> written to escape the @ in some way.
OK, I will try restarting Wireshark tomorrow!
My Linux box is at the office and I'm already at home...
I'll post the results here once it's done!
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