Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master 8d65ccf: Show answers a line at a
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From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 18:44:34 +0000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 1:23 PM
> To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] master 8d65ccf: Show
> answers a line at a time, after the request frame and time delta.
>
> On Dec 25, 2019, at 9:21 AM, Maynard, Chris via Wireshark-dev <wireshark-
> dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With this change, it's no longer possible to right-click on the answer, choose
> "Copy -> Value" and easily obtain the *entire* answer.  Now, you would have to
> copy each line one at a time to retrieve it.
>
> That's not unique to this protocol; there are other text-based protocols that
> show the text a line at a time, so that it's possible to easily *read* the
> dissection.
>
> So perhaps we 1) should add support for selecting multiple lines in the packet
> details pane and copying them (I think there's already an enhancement request
> for that) and 2) make sure that copying that as a value produces the desired
> result.

Or revert this change so whois.answer reflects the entire answer again, but add each line underneath the answer using a different filter, such as "whois.answer.line"?  I would prefer this solution as the answer is the entire answer and each line is only part of the answer.

For example:
V WHOIS: Answer
           V Answer [truncated]: % IANA WHOIS server\n% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org\n% This query returned 1 object\n\n domain:       EXAMPLE.COM\n\norganisation: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority\n\n created:      1992-01-
                    Line 1: % IANA WHOIS server\n
                    Line 2: % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org\n
                    Line 3: % This query returned 1 object\n
                    Line 4: \n
                    Line 5: domain:       EXAMPLE.COM\n
                    Line 6: \n
                    Line 7: organisation: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority\n
                    Line 8: \n
                    Line 9: created:      1992-01-01\n
                    Line 10: source:       IANA\n
                    Line 11: \n

Here I've enumerated each line in the field description, but I hope it's clear that the same field would be used for all lines.
- Chris
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