[omniORB] Watching GIOP message traffic...

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 12 August, Lars von Wedel wrote:

> is there any way to view the GIOP traffic in some (more or less)
> human readable form? Just for the fun of it, I'm interested in
> how things are actually transferred...

With -ORBtraceLevel 40, you see all the GIOP traffic sent and received
by omniORB, as a hex dump, plus any ASCII text. It's useful if you
want to pick through the GIOP message, but not very pleasant.

If you want a tool to unpick the GIOP messages for you, try Ethereal
from http://www.ethereal.com/ . That snoops all kinds of network
traffic, including GIOP. It's possible to build IDL-specific protocol
analysers with it, using an omniidl back-end that comes with it.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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