Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] AOL protocol - mentioned on slashdot

[David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Actually, capturing an AOL session is quite easy.  The AOL client is
> capable of connecting to the AOL servers via TCP, so if you can sniff your
> own network traffic, you can sniff your AOL session.  I've got most of an
> AOL packet decoder written, but I don't know if I will ever finish it
> enough to the point where I would feel it would be useful to submit it as
> a patch.  What I wrote served my purposes at work and I'm on to another
> project.  I didn't use the document referenced on Slashdot (which is so
> laughably bad that I am stunned...)  Instead I based my work on 
> http://www.zigamorph.net/fwaa/croall.txt , which really isn't any more 
> complete but is at least a good start.

So, looking at the protocol, how far away is a linux AOL dialer, in your
opinion?