Re: interception of socket connections?
Re: interception of socket connections?
- Subject: Re: interception of socket connections?
- From: "Peter Sichel" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:47:49 -0400
Yes, all possible.
Check out Network Kernel Extensions (NKEs). In your case,
you'll probably want to use a Socket Filter NKE.
For documentation, a good place to start is the file named "NKE.pdf"
on your hard drive.
- Peter
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Hi,
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A question came up that I thought I would ask here (I have sent an
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email to Quinn and Christophe as well). I knew how to get the raw data
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stream in OS 9 using Autopush. Now I wanted to do something "kind of
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the same" on OS X.
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On the Windows platform, Winsock Layered Service Provider (LSP) allows
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interception of socket connections. One can identify that it is for a
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POP3 connection and go from there.
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What I need to do on OS X, is come up with a way to intercept the
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traffic coming in and handle *only* POP3 traffic.
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Is interception of socket connections possible on OS X? and if so,
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where is the documentation/code samples which describe interception of
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socket connections on OS X before they are handled upstream by the
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local applications.
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Randy
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