Re: [tcpdump-workers] Email Content Extraction From payload

2009-04-03 Thread Tobias Weber
On 03.04.2009, at 17:14, Shameem Ahamed wrote: Problem is , when i try to print the payload (It is represented as a pointer to the u_char data type), it gives me binary data , of course it includes some ascii data ( the http request headers). Is one of them, by any chance, "Content-Encoding

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Privileges on Mac

2009-04-01 Thread Tobias Weber
On 01.04.2009, at 00:47, Guy Harris wrote: If you're talking about Authorization Services, they suggest using set-UID programs (that changed years ago, but no one uses the new way) A set-UID program that does what privileged stuff it needs to do (opening a pcap_t, (what I've seen is usin

[tcpdump-workers] Privileges on Mac

2009-03-31 Thread Tobias Weber
Hi, libpcap comes with Mac OS, but to use it from GUI applications without changing permissions in /dev is complicated. The OS includes a helper tool which can ask the user for credentials and return a file descriptor opened with root rights. It'd be nice if libpcap could be initialized wi