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Dripcap Packet Analyzer

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39 pointsn_yuichi13 comments

And why it's "next generation" ? Main site that is linked in github repo is not working for me. There is only screenshot, nothing else. From the screenshot it seems like very simple packet analyzer. I don't see any reason this is "next gen" or why i should use this instead of WireShark.

There's a github wiki with a little more info. But not much.

It's javascript. Erm, electron. So it is next gen. Meh.

Same question, why is this better than Wireshark. Can I do custom packet analysis and packet matching? Is there a better scripting engine? (I love Lua hooks in Wireshark, makes it easy to pull apart complex traces / flows.)

Looks like it's a NodeJS app wrapped in Electron shell, parsing/analyzing packets via "packages" (implemented via ES6 modules).

I guess that what makes it "Next generation" :)

Maybe the article poster or the author could enlighten us on how and why this implementation might match Wireshark's proven track records...

Nice, this will be full of opportunities to pwn researchers via remote exploitation then.

I have to say the screenshots looked really good however I could not get this to work on OSX. It starts up, however, it won't let me enter a session name or start a capture session if I hit play. Hope it improves tho.

It's UI looks very nice. I hope all native UI's die as soon aa possible. What is last time you have tried gtk on Windows? Or Qt in gnome (yes I know, with some tweaking, it would be better). All of them feel so inconsistent together. At the other hand Web UI (and electron apps) is so nice to work with I don't even consider using native one when there is one with electron engine available.

Qt isn't native.

It is, it tries hard to emulate native look and feel with its abstraction layer.

I would take a modern QT app over an electron app based purely on memory usage alone. It is no comparison from the potpourri of apps I have tried using both technologies.

Yes QT is more work. But it's kind of like the old adage, you get what you pay for.

Both platforms can be made to look ugly or pretty or inconsistent.

There doesn't seem to be a windows binary.

Yeah, no wonder Windows struggled to open the .zip; seems to be a macOS .zip.

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