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Re: interception of socket connections?
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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

>Hi,
>
>A question came up that I thought I would ask here (I have sent an
>email to Quinn and Christophe as well). I knew how to get the raw data
>stream in OS 9 using Autopush. Now I wanted to do something "kind of
>the same" on OS X.
>
>On the Windows platform, Winsock Layered Service Provider (LSP) allows
>interception of socket connections. One can identify that it is for a
>POP3 connection and go from there.
>
>What I need to do on OS X, is come up with a way to intercept the
>traffic coming in and handle *only* POP3 traffic.
>
>Is interception of socket connections possible on OS X? and if so,
>where is the documentation/code samples which describe interception of
>socket connections on OS X before they are handled upstream by the
>local applications.
>
>Randy
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