Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector

Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by cft on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:21PM (#21262557)

Binary WS data inspector with an ASCII decoder would be useful: the current trend is to use binary WS socket data to obfuscate/prevent scraping (e.g. NYSE.com real time quotes)

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Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:57PM (#21266287)

Plugable, Wireshark-style data dissectors would be the best option.

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Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by evilpie on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:25PM (#21263324)

Is there some common protocol that is used for binary communication, or is it all custom? Something like hexview or xxd would probably help generally.

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Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by cft on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:37PM (#21263458)

Usually custom, that needs to be reverse engineered (with some help of usually minified JavaScript)

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Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by bonestamp2 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:19AM (#21267004)

This is one option: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers

Chrome developer tools can view binary data transmitted with this approach.

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Re:Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector by digitarald on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:24PM (#21263308)

Yes, this is upcoming next as binary preview is pretty bad without it.

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