[Winpcap-users] [Winpcap-bugs] Filenames with characters that are not ISO-8859-1

[Boaz Brickner]

Hi,

Is it possible to export pcap_dump_fopen() so I can use fopen to open files
with Unicode filenames?

Thanks,

Boaz.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 14:05, Boaz Brickner <boaz.brickner at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for your answer GV,
>
> I've looked around and thought about using pcap_fopen_offline() to use the
> FILE structure that I believe can be opened using a Unicode filenames.
>
> I'm also trying to use pcap_dump_fopen() in the same manner, but I saw that
> it's an unexported function.
>
> http://www.winpcap.org/pipermail/winpcap-bugs/2007-November/000517.html
>
> What do you think should I do?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Boaz.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:38, Gianluca Varenni <
> Gianluca.Varenni at riverbed.com> wrote:
>
>> Boaz,
>>
>>
>>
>> First of all, sorry for the late answer.
>>
>> Adding support for UNICODE file names is not exactly trivial. I haven’t
>> looked too much into the source code, but I’m pretty sure that new functions
>> accepting UNICODE file names would be needed, and for the sake of
>> portability, those functions would need to be back-ported to libpcap (so
>> linux/bsd/…).
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you tried looking at the WinPcap source code (wpcap.dll, in
>> particular) to understand how difficult it would be?
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a nice day
>>
>> GV
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* winpcap-bugs-bounces at winpcap.org [mailto:
>> winpcap-bugs-bounces at winpcap.org] *On Behalf Of *Boaz Brickner
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 07, 2011 4:21 AM
>> *To:* winpcap-bugs at winpcap.org
>> *Subject:* [Winpcap-bugs] Filenames with characters that are not
>> ISO-8859-1
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to add Unicode filenames support to Pcap.Net (
>> http://pcapdot.net) and it seems that filenames that are not ISO-8859-1
>> are not supported.
>>
>> For example, I try to get all of the file devices in a folder using
>> pcap_findalldevs_ex() function.
>> In this folder, I have the same pcap file copies multiple times with
>> different filenames.
>> If the file has only characters that are ISO-8859-1 (or ASCII) it appears
>> in the output of the function.
>> If the file has other characters, it doesn't appear in the output of the
>> function.
>>
>> Is there something else I can do to handle non ISO-8859-1 pcap filenames
>> using WinPcap functions?
>>
>> Can you fix it so it will be possible to use every Unicode filename in
>> WinPcap?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Boaz.
>>
>
>
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