Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] install issues ?X

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From: Dapo Ladimeji <alani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:08:21 +0100
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Hi
I have installed etherealon several windows machines but am getting nowhere on my MAC. This is the error I get:
"Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Sorry, ethereal is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up gtk+2 (2.4.9-1009) ...
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.1.dylib
  Referenced from: /sw/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0
  Reason: image not found
/sw/sbin/update-gtk-immodules: line 15: 11316 Trace/BPT trap          gtk-query-immodules-2.0 >$TMPFILE
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing gtk+2 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 133
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ethereal:
 ethereal depends on gtk+2; however:
  Package gtk+2 is not configured yet.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing ethereal (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gtk+2
 ethereal
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"
It may be something simple but I have spent several hours  failing to solve it.
thanks
Napata

On 8 Aug 2006, at 01:56, David Luu wrote:

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Hi,
 
Don't know if anyone has done something similar before, as I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Whether anyone has done such before, I could use some advice if any.
 
I'd like to automate some web configuration that occurs from Java applets making HTTP POST requests to some ASP server script pages (I prefer this idea over GUI automation of the Java applets to do the same configuration). I'd like to parse out the HTTP request information & extract the URL and POST data from a script (like Perl) instead of manually analyzing the HTTP requests to do the same. I was thinking of parsing saved capture files in libpcap format from Wireshark/Ethereal instead of real-time capture & parsing of the requests in Perl and some libpcap library. Then I could (nearly) automate building a Perl user agent script that would do the same web configuration.
 
It looks to be feasible except that the saved capture file has non-ASCII garbled junk padded in between the HTTP request/response body & the next HTTP request/response header field. And this non-ASCII garbled junk has some ASCII characters in it also. This part would be more troublesome to parse out.
 
So I was wondering if someone has already done a similar HTTP request parsing framework that I could use or if there is a way to save/extract (in Wireshark/Ethereal, etc.) the HTTP requests as pure ASCII messages as defined in the RFCs (without all the garbled junk in between) so that it would be easier to parse.
 
Regards,
 
David Luu
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