You changed the data. When I said I couldn't see how "L L ..." would have worked on the PC (or any machine), you told me the response was
0x0d 0xef 0xac 0xed 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 ...
Now you say it's either
0x0d 0xef 0xac 0xed 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 ... or
0xed 0xac 0xef 0x0d 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 ...
both different from what you told me.

And you didn't mention anything about the server's response being different based on the server on which it runs.

The problem you have is not related to pack, it's related to not knowing how the data is saved. The structure is meaningless. How the data is serialized is not dependent on its structure in memory. You need to know how the data is serialized. There's no escaping that.

In can be in terms of number of bytes, byte orderings, etc (at which point its dead simple to write the proper pack/unpack patterns), but it doesn't have to be.

If you know the library that was used to serialize the data, you could potentially use the same library or a port of it to deserialize the data.

In reply to Re^9: p0fq.pl and pack by ikegami
in thread p0fq.pl and pack? by macli

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