"Richard Franklin" <richard_p_franklin_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > 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?
ODBC is just a little layer on top of the native API (OCI in this case) and
knows nothing about the tns packet structure. It is proprietary information
and against your user's agreement to reverse engineer it.
Jim
Received on Thu Aug 26 2004 - 14:27:09 CDT
