Diverting sockets and streams

[Jakub Bednar]

Hi Julian,

                   thanks for making this clear to me.

>
>>
>> so basically I have to implement part of the TCP stack in my app.
>
> yes,
> though there may be other ways to do what you want..
> what DO you want to do?
>

I need to make a transparent proxy e.g. HTTP proxy, that will be able  
to scan the data stream for some security problems (exploits or  
whatever).

I had a solution based on packet forwarding and packet UID matching  
rather then divert sockets. This solution works fine on FreeBSD, Linux  
and Mac OS X Leopard. Hovewer in the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard,  
forwarding outgoing packets to local port does not work. So I'm  
looking for another solution.

Jakub