Image::...ol::PCAP(3)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, you're on the Image::...ol::PCAP(3) page from User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the module in question is Image::ExifTool::PCAP. It reads CAP, PCAP and PCAPNG Packet Capture files. slay 🫶✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

This module is used by Image::ExifTool. That's the whole synopsis — short, iconic, no cap 💅.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module is where the definitions live that Image::ExifTool needs to read metadata from CAP, PCAP and PCAPNG Packet Capture files. It's giving behind-the-scenes main character energy for packet-capture metadata, and honestly? Obsessed 🎀🔥.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Licensed and living, bestie 🌸

🌈 REFERENCES 🌈

The receipts, preserved exactly:

• <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gharris-opsawg-pcap-01.html>
• <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-opsawg-pcapng-02.html>
• <https://formats.kaitai.io/microsoft_network_monitor_v2/>

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• "PCAP Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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Image::...ol::PCAP(3), out 💖 — signed off by perl v5.42.2 on 2026-04-10 ✨🫶