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I had in my mind that it was possible to add links to tree items for
external (URL) documentation. Now that I look, I see that I must have
been mistaken. Was there ever such a feature or discussion of a feature?

 

I suppose the idea would be that selecting the field and some option
(menu, shortcut, context menu) would open a browser to a URL associated
with the field by the dissector. It could be a static part of the field
definition (most likely) or even dynamic based on the particular
context.

 

I see that there are links to the wiki for protocols, but not for
fields. Further, the wiki is not the only resource available (or,
horrors, the best). As someone mentioned a while ago, the wiki is more
for how Wireshark works with the protocol, not (I think) to act as the
authoritative reference of the protocol itself. What I propose would be
a link to the authoritative reference (RFC, internal spec, whatever).

 

Thoughts? Would a patch to add such a feature be looked at favorably?

 

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