Title: [PATCH] New menu items to copy packet data
<<wp1_copy.patch>>
Hi
This is a patch adding items to the context menus for the packet list and packet details panes for copying packet data to the clipboard.
New menu item on packet list pane:
Copy (sub menu) ->
Summary (Text) Copies fields displayed in the packet list, tab separated
Summary (CSV) Copies fields displayed in the packet list, comma separated
Hex and Text Copies data for the selected frame in hex-editor style (similar to Copy\All Information in packet bytes pane)
Text Only Copies data for the selected frame, dropping non-printable characters other than line breaks (similar to Copy\Text Only in packet bytes pane)
Hex Columns As Hex and Text but without text
Hex Stream Copies data for the selected frame as an unpunctuated list of hex values
Base64 Stream Copies data for the selected frame encoded using Base64
Binary Stream Copies raw packet bytes to the clipboard as MIME type application/octet-stream
Binary stream is supported only in GTK2 builds (the menu item is not present for GTK+). Some hex editors (e.g. frhed for Windows) can retreive the stream from the clipboard and modify it or paste it into files. I haven't been able to find a similar editor under LINUX, but the data does seem to get copied to the clipboard.
The packet details pane is the same except:
- main menu item is "Copy Selected Bytes"
- only the bytes that would be selected in the packet bytes pane are copied (e.g. if you select HTTP row you get only the HTTP bytes)
- no "Summary Items"
I'm not convinced that Base64 is useful; I wanted to implement a non-trivial encoding to test a particular path through the code. I'd like to come back at some point and update the "Text Only" items to work better for UTF-8; at the moment they will probably garble non-ascii text (but are consistent with the existing Text Only copy from the bytes pane).
"application/octect-stream" is the best MIME-type I could think of for raw packet data. Other ideas welcome!
I have not updated any documentation because I cannot find a description of what context menu items do anywhere (main menu items are listed in the man page). If I should have done, please let me know.
Cheers
Doug
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