What next on pcap2har?

[Andrew Fleenor]

I have time to work on pcap2har again. What does it need to be sorta finished? I want to make a roadmap for its development, or at least a solid todo list.

I know it needs work on DNS-related stuff, but I'm not sure what the state of that is (how many fixes I've merged, or its current accuracy). I also know it could stand some modularization; in particular, the TCP/HTTP parsing and HAR generation should be decoupled. What else needs to be worked on, and what are the priorities?

[Steve Souders]

Bryan & Libo: Did you fork the project? If so, can you comment on how to move forward in shared
development?

-Steve

[Libo Song]

We forked the pcap2har project, and embed it in pcapperf for quick
iterations. The project code is at http://pcaphar.googlecode.com/.

I have included DNS lookup in my forked code, and I reverted back
the page break-up. Breaking-up pages are difficult. Using referer cannot
distinguish new pages, frames, or clicks.

The other issue is to support IPv6. I have seen some traffic captured
with IPv6 packets. The pcap2har does not handle those packet right now.
This is should be an easy fix.

-Libo

[Steve Souders]

Is page break up in the plans? That's critical.

-Steve

On 12/29/10 9:09 AM, Libo Song wrote:
> We forked the pcap2har project, and embed it in pcapperf for quick
> iterations. The project code is at http://pcaphar.googlecode.com/.
>
> I have included DNS lookup in my forked code, and I reverted back
> the page break-up. Breaking-up pages are difficult. Using referer cannot
> distinguish new pages, frames, or clicks.
>
> The other issue is to support IPv6. I have seen some traffic captured
> with IPv6 packets. The pcap2har does not handle those packet right now.
> This is should be an easy fix.
>
> -Libo
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Steve Souders<st...@souders.org> wrote:

>> Bryan& Libo: Did you fork the project? If so, can you comment on how to

[Libo Song]

Yes, page break up is in the to-do list. We have not find a good way
to do it. I will file a bug on the project site.

-Libo

[Andrew]

Okay, tentative DNS support is up. I'll start working on page
breakups. Thinking about it, at least.