Capturing, displaying, and re-creating network conversations and state information

摘要

Graphically representing network frame capture sessions, network frame data, network conversations and network state data using network protocol parsers formed from a network protocol script and enabling interaction with the network frames, conversations, scripts, and parsers is disclosed. Capture session frame data and capture session context data are stored in a file that can be used to reconstruct the capture session on computing devices other than the computing device involved in the network frame capture and not connected to the network involved in the network frame capture. Dynamically representing the execution of network protocol scripts; enabling the setting of breakpoints in, and single stepping through, network protocol scripts; and modifying protocol scripts and applying the modifications while the protocol scripts are being used are supported.