Re: oracle net8 protocol

richard_p_franklin_at_yahoo.com (Richard Franklin) wrote:

>> You could start oracle sql*net tracing... works
>> as long as the connection isn't encrypted
>> The protocol is propriety, no specs public, afaik
>
>is there an open source ODBC that I can examine? the sql*net .trc
>files are pretty useless because they are too hi level. if I could
>look at a driver in source code I'd understand how it worked. but I
>don't know of any such projects, just ones that link in oracle libs.
>(like perl libs for oracle connect)
>
>I would think that someone had done such a project to make an
>application talk to an oracle database?

Missed the start of this thread but your comment:
>I would think that someone had done such a project to make an
>application talk to an oracle database?

if an application developer has access to an Oracle system, they can use the Oracle ODBC drivers ( if they must use ODBC instead of OLE DB or native connection or the Oracle OCI ) so why reinvent the wheel? Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 12:31:46 CDT