Using snowcone to see protocol details

by glguy 1 year ago

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Short demo showing how I use snowcone to look at the protocol level messages.

Clicking on the message command name brings up a detailed view of that message
Pressing Alt-R toggles a “raw” view so I can see the bytes of a parameter as a string literal
Raw bytes can be entered in the form “x##” and then pressing Alt-K to interpret that byte. In the video I show manually building a CTCP reply typing x01<Alt-K> to insert the control code needed for CTCP.

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