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= SST Features =

• Compiles on Mac OS X and Linux (Ubuntu). Windows support should be easy to add if someone knows how to compile it.
• TCPSST
• SST over WebSockets
• Base-64 encoded packets (prefixed by hex-streamID and ‘%’)
• Optionally decodes contents using Protocol buffers

= Protocol buffer (and PBJ) Features =

• Basic datatypes (varint, fixed32, fixed64, variable length)
• Packed field support
• Heuristics for detection of field types:
  • floating point vs. integer detection
  • pbj-formatted timestamps (microseconds since 1970)
  • pbj-formatted UUID (random sequences of at most 16 in length, rest filled with 0’s)
  • detecting packed fields inside a string/bytes.
  • viewing embedded message.

Does not support reading .proto files—it only uses heuristics, and they may not be appropriate for the type of data you are using.

Currently tied into packet-sst.cpp because I can’t understand how to create nested packet layers in Wireshark. If anybody ever reads this and is interested in using this dissector for protobufs, I’d be happy to work on a better way to integrate protobuf parsing.

Everything here is licensed under the New BSD License.