Stephen Fisher wrote:
I have committed an initial version of a content listing/saving feature
for the HTTP protocol.
First of all, thanks for this - it's a feature long awaited IMO.
I would appreciate if anyone could try it out
and give feedback on the implementation and if they can think of a
better top-level menu to put it under (View perhaps?).
Basically, the View menu is about *how* things are displayed, and not to
display "new" things - so this is not the place to go.
Analyze or Statistics is the place to go - IMO it might better be placed
in Analyze as this feature is not really about Statistics. However, both
menus have become a bit interchangeable over time.
Some things I've noticed:
- this announcement should have gone to the developer list first (most
developer related discussion will go to the users list now)
- the buttons don't have a tooltip (should be easy to add)
- when selecting a row, the packet list should jump to that packet (as
other similar dialogs do it)
- save fails if the "suggested" filename contains bad characters (e.g.
question mark), which often happens. Unfortunately, I don't know a good
character encapsulation for this.
- no "Save All" button (to save all files in one rush)
- not mentioned in the User's Guide (that's ok as this feature is
currently experimental) - but shall be added *before* the next release
- no "Help" button to point to the none existing User's Guide section ;-)
Anyway, this is a really good start of this topic - now it's about
getting it "bullet proof" ;-)
Regards, ULFL
