Hi,

Has anyone managed to do this? Does anyone have any tips? A quick glance at Hand2Note looks as if they are monitoring the packets with WinPCap. Any clues with this? The packets look encrypted to me?

I am thinking about writing an opensource program to graph results and mark hand histories. Nothing too amazing, no super sick HUD just a simple program to log/graph results and be able to easily review hands.

The hardest part is being able to obtain the handhistories without doing something super fugly.

Any advice would be useful. Thanks.

I've done this kind of thing before, many times, but not with this particular site.

When you're using winpcap, are you sure you're only capturing traffic between the client and the site? You can filter by ip, port, protocol, etc.

If they're using SSL, you might get lucky and be able to sniff it, depends on how they're doing it. In some cases, they will use their own version of, say, the open source library libssl. If that's the case, I have had good luck with replacing their version with my own, which dumps it's IO. If they're not, then you might get lucky and they'll be using a version of SSL that isn't too picky about self-signed certificates, in which case you can use a proxy ssl server like Burp suite's Burp Proxy.

These are all kinda big ifs. You'll have to do some research.

It's also sometimes possible to get the hand details out of the chat box, if they have a verbose chat mode. Sometimes you can do this directly (using windows API calls to select text from text boxes) but often that's blocked. If it's blocked then you can often do it using API hooking, over-riding the functions that windows uses to draw text.

These are all *really* complicated, for most people way more work than would be desirable to get hands out of a site. Some of these methods would be easy to distribute to other people, others (like burp suite) would not.

I can't remember if I ever had to resort to OCR or not, I know that I did OCR for a few projects but I think that was scraping card values from the board in real time for displaying stud-game HUD details.