Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to propose a new feature?

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Michael Roth wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to propose a programming API, e.g. a DLL version of tshark.exe
> > which you could load once and then call on a per frame basis to get data
> > decoded into memory buffered PDML or something like that.
> 
> There's already an API from libwiretap, which both Wireshark and TShark 
> use to dissect packets - but it's currently not guaranteed to remain 
> unchanged from release to release.  If the API stabilizes, there's a 
> good chance that it won't stabilize as the current API.
> 
> It dissects packets to yield a protocol tree.

Also, be aware that the code is under GPL, not LGPL, i.e. if you use the
dll in a product, that product must be under a GPL compliant license.

 Ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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