I'm developing a product using Macromedia Flash Remoting, which
encapsulates its own AMF data in HTTP packets (MIME type
application/x-amf). Wireshark is great for intercepting the traffic,
but once I'm looking at the HTTP transaction I can't see anything
more than hex data.
I'm a decent C programmer, but have no experience developing for
Wireshark, and probably could only contribute in a very
well-circumscribed area of the product. Given all that, I'd like to
write a packet dissector for Flash Remoting AMF data presented within
HTTP packets. I think that means I need to build a new media type
dissector.
So, I have some questions:
- Is this something the average programmer could do without
thoroughly learning the Wireshark code base?
- Would I be writing a media type dissector plugin, living alongside
such modules as the GIF, JPEG and line based text dissectors?
- Where in the code tree would I find a source file that does the
same task, albeit for a different media type?
... feel free to tell me RTFM, hopefully accompanied by URLs for the M...
Thanks,
Dan
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Suitable Systems http://www.suitable.com/
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Wakefield, MA 01880-2400
