Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Checking for Qt in a dissector

[Paul Offord <Paul.Offord@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pascal,

That won't work in this case.  It's actually a plugin rather than a true dissector - I didn't describe it well.  It uses Qt code so it definitely will only work with Wireshark 2.x.x.  Objections aside, how can it be detected?

Thanks and regards...Paul

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From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: 03/07/2017 17:57 (GMT+00:00)

To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Checking for Qt in a dissector

Hi Paul,

Le 3 juil. 2017 18:47, "Paul Offord" <Paul.Offord@xxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

I have a dissector that needs to confirm that it is running in a Qt environment i.e. Wireshark 2.x.x and not tshark.  What is a good way to check for this?

Sorry to say that but IMHO you should not / must not have such a need. Any dissector that would behave differently depending on the application used (command line, GTK UI, Qt UI) has a design flaw.

Dissectors should behave the same way whatever the user frontend, and taps are here to present the data to the user differently depending on the interface used.

I sincerely hope we do not expose the info you are requesting to libwireshark....

Regards,

Pascal.

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