On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:39:23PM -0000, Antonio Cassidy wrote:
> Can anyone point me towards some papers which better describe the
> processes MSN is making.
I'm not familiar with the MSN protocol, but this comment from the source
code of the Wireshark dissector may help:
/*
* The now-expired Internet-Draft for the MSN Messenger 1.0 protocol
* can, as of the time of the writing of this comment, be found at:
*
*
http://praya.sourceforge.net/draft-movva-msn-messenger-protocol-00.txt
*
* http://mono.es.gnome.org/imsharp/tutoriales/msn/appendixa.html
*
* http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/ietf_draft.php
*
* http://babble.wundsam.net/docs/protocol-msn-im.txt
*
* Note that it's Yet Another FTP-Like Command/Response Protocol,
* so it arguably should be dissected as such, although you do have
* to worry about the MSG command, as only the first line of it
* should be parsed as a command, the rest should be parsed as the
* message body. We therefore leave "hf_msnms_command", "tokenlen",
* and "next_token", even though they're unused, as reminders that
* this should be done.
*/
> Is it possible to review the information/file being sent? Either by
> decoding it or resending the information to an MSN account ?
You want to extract the file that was sent and save it to be
looked at?
Steve
