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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] overriding dissector for port 8080

From: Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:59:18 -0400
On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:43 AM, John Dill <John.Dill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Filter Expression dialog is the best place in Wireshark to locate the
> data elements they are looking for, so it was mentioned as a "nice to have”.

Oh well if it’s just the dialog, why not just disable the other protocols?  Go to menu Analyze->Enabled Protocols, and disable all and then select the ones you want enabled.  Only the enabled ones show up in the Filter Expression dialog, I believe.

-hadriel