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Protocol description? #1028

Open quintilation opened 3 years ago

quintilation commented 3 years ago

I cannot find the wire message protocol documentation

I am interested in porting barrier to plan9. There is an old synergy client for plan9 which I think could be used as the basis of a new barrier port.

I believe barrier has a different greeting string from synergy but what other changes have been made in the protocol?

Thanks for any help,

-Steve

r-c-f commented 3 years ago

The change in greeting string is the only notable change, everything else is identical

quintilation commented 3 years ago

thank you.

one more question if i may?

can i rely on wireshark's dissector for the protocol, or is it out of date?

when I try using it I see errors on both synergy and barrier messages (rather than my own) reported by wireshark which makes me very suspicious.

-Steve

r-c-f commented 3 years ago

I had similar issues when trying to work out the protocol. It should not be relied upon.

quintilation commented 3 years ago

thank you