On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:39:15AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > Unfortunately, I can't seem to locate any good technical documentation > on how RDP does what it does. > > I considered looking at the linux programs that use it (rdesktop) and > trying to read their code, but I don't write code myself so it would > be hit or miss. > > RDP is Microsoft's baby and I don't know where to look for in depth > docs on it. > > Does anyone have a link or two to some helpful stuff that would help > me break the code? Or will I just need to figure it the hard way?
There is little to no public documentation on Remote Desktop. I wanted to implement RDP dissection in Wireshark a while back and gave up (I had just finished off the VNC dissector which was a pain even with documentation). Your best bet is to read the source code to rdesktop (which is poorly documented if I remember correctly) and the articles under the "Documentation" section of www.rdesktop.org. It is a shame they did not document the protocol(s) in a nice fashion while writing the code to rdesktop. I do not mean to discourage you or anyone from trying to figure it out as it would be a great feature to have in Wireshark. I would be willing to help if someone could figure out at least enough to get started :) Steve _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
