One specific future scenario would be an iOS or Android version of Wireshark purely for analyzing traffic captures and not capturing in itself. Usually on such systems providing a binary which can capture system traffic is frowned upon if not outright forbidden by the developer licenses. Therefore generating a binary which is not even capable of capturing (as well as integrating plugins or lua scripts for instance) would be preferrable.
I am not propagating going there, but I do not see a reason in actively bricking up that road by adding a simplified version of libpcap or making it obligatory to build against it. regards On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Dario Lombardo <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Jeff Morriss <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I remember getting (infrequent) questions/requests for building Wireshark >> without the ability to capture. Usually the desire seems to come from >> corporate IT policies which don't want people capturing corporate traffic >> but which need to support users' ability to analyze captures made elsewhere >> (test systems or maybe from customers?). >> >> [Of course most of these requests are probably for the Windows version >> where you can control the ability to capture by not installing WinPCAP.] >> >> > Well... this is a capability issue. I don't think you can prevent your > users to capture by giving them a incomplete version of a software. If they > have the capability of capture, (aka they are root/admin) they can still > capture with a binary copy of the software. If they can't install software > or don't have the proper capability... they are done. I think that mixing > features of a software and capabilities is a bit messy... but maybe there > are specific scenarios I can't understand. > > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject= > unsubscribe >
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