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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Daniel T. Griscom             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suitable Systems              http://www.suitable.com/
1 Centre Street, Suite 204    (781) 665-0053
Wakefield, MA  01880-2400
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