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IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/28

Cool! Search by port number, name, user or description straight from the source: IANA.org Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry

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Don’t Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses!

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/21

Interesting piece: Don’t Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses! [WayBack]

TL;DR:

When have neither then for quad-dotted decimal IPv4 addresses (ignoring for instance octals and grouped quads), this is suitable: regex – Regular expression to match DNS hostname or IP Address? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

ValidIpAddressRegex = "^(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$";

Which explained looks like this:

https://regex101.com/r/Wyr2Zd/1

Regular expression:

/ ^(([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])$ / g

Explanation:

  • ^ asserts position at start of the string
    • 1st Capturing Group (([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])\.){3}
      • {3} Quantifier — Matches exactly 3 times
        A repeated capturing group will only capture the last iteration. Put a capturing group around the repeated group to capture all iterations or use a non-capturing group instead if you’re not interested in the data

        • 2nd Capturing Group ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])
          • 1st Alternative [0-9]
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
              0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
          • 2nd Alternative [1-9][0-9]
            • Match a single character present in the list below [1-9]
              1-9 a single character in the range between 1 (ASCII 49) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
              0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
          • 3rd Alternative 1[0-9]{2}
            • 1 matches the character 1 literally (case sensitive)
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]{2}
              {2} Quantifier — Matches exactly 2 times
              0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
          • 4th Alternative 2[0-4][0-9]
            • 2 matches the character 2 literally (case sensitive)
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-4]
              0-4 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 4 (ASCII 52) (case sensitive)
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
              0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
          • 5th Alternative 25[0-5]
            • 25 matches the characters 25 literally (case sensitive)
            • Match a single character present in the list below [0-5]
              0-5 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 5 (ASCII 53) (case sensitive)
        • \. matches the character . literally (case sensitive)
    • 3rd Capturing Group ([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9]{2}|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])
      • 1st Alternative [0-9]
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
          0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
      • 2nd Alternative [1-9][0-9]
        • Match a single character present in the list below [1-9]
          1-9 a single character in the range between 1 (ASCII 49) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
          0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
      • 3rd Alternative 1[0-9]{2}
        • 1 matches the character 1 literally (case sensitive)
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]{2}
          {2} Quantifier — Matches exactly 2 times
          0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
      • 4th Alternative 2[0-4][0-9]
        • 2 matches the character 2 literally (case sensitive)
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-4]
          0-4 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 4 (ASCII 52) (case sensitive)
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-9]
          0-9 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 9 (ASCII 57) (case sensitive)
      • 5th Alternative 25[0-5]
        • 25 matches the characters 25 literally (case sensitive)
        • Match a single character present in the list below [0-5]
          0-5 a single character in the range between 0 (ASCII 48) and 5 (ASCII 53) (case sensitive)
  • $ asserts position at the end of the string, or before the line terminator right at the end of the string (if any)
  • Global pattern flags
    g modifier: global. All matches (don’t return after first match)

–jeroen

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HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26

HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting. Download url -> https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

Source: HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete… [WayBack]

To me it looks remarkably similar to https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie [WayBack] which too is a visual cURL replacement.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Communications Development, cURL, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Sending various HTTP request kinds using curl

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/25

I’ve been using cURL but always had a feeling not to its potential basically because the cURL man page [WayBack] is both massive and lacks concrete useful practical examples.

For instance, I knew about the --header and --verbose options (I always use verbose names even though shorter -H and -v exist) to pass a specific header and get verbose output, but the man page basic examples like this by Tader:

curl --header --verbose "X-MyHeader: 123" www.google.com

source: How to send a header using a HTTP request through a curl call? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

There are some more examples at bropages.org/curl but they’re hardly organised or documented.

So I was really glad I found the below answer [WayBack] by Amith Koujalgi to web services – HTTP POST and GET using cURL in Linux – Stack Overflow.

But first note that recent versions (around 7.22 or higher) of cURL now need to combine the --silent and --show-error (or in short -sS) parameters to suppress progress but show errors: linux – How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

Back to the examples

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Posted in *nix, Communications Development, cURL, Delphi, Development, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Power User, REST, Scripting, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS, XML, XML/XSD | 1 Comment »

Postman offers free (small-project) API developer tools – Open Source Insider

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/19

Cool: [WayBack] Postman offers free (small-project) API developer tools – Open Source Insider.

I’ve used the [Archive.is] Postman – Chrome Web Store for HTTP/HTTPS API testing using various REST services. It’s awesome even though unlike the postmanlabs/postman-chrome-extension-legacy: Postman REST Client Chrome Extension (Legacy Version) it’s not open source any more as it now can run server side and has an API of itself [WayBack].

Get it at [WayBack] Postman | Supercharge your API workflow. Available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Chrome users.

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, REST, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development, TCP | 2 Comments »

Reverse ssh tunnel between two linux boxes to allow RDP traffic over port 3389

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/12

You know the drill: site that limits incoming traffic and has painful VPN. Luckily this time outgoing ssh traffic on port 22 was allowed (because they do SFTP which is SSH File Transfer).

Since I’ve outside Linux boxes and could run a Linux VM there (all Tumbleweed based), this allowed me to do a reverse SSH tunnel. Those are always a bit confusing, but this set of drawings really helps: What’s ssh port forwarding and what’s the difference between ssh local and remote port forwarding – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange [WayBack].

Which brings me to a statement like this:

ssh -o "ExitOnForwardFailure yes" -R :3389:192.168.199.114:3389 -p 33322 93.184.216.34

That didn’t work: a remote machine could not RDP to port 3389, but a local telnet localhost 3389 would. The reason is that by default sshd binds a remote port to the local address only and not the wildcard addres.

So you have to open up the remote config a bit: at least /etc/sshd_config and most likely also your firewall.

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URLs and domains that OS-es use to detect Captive Portals

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/11

OS X

Android / Chromebook:

  • clients3.google.com

iOS 6:

  • gsp1.apple.com
  • *.akamaitechnologies.com

iOS 7:

  • www.appleiphonecell.com
  • www.airport.us
  • *.apple.com.edgekey.net
  • *.akamaiedge.net
  • *.akamaitechnologies.com

iOS 8/9:

Windows

Amazon Kindle (Fire)

OS X settings are in:

  • /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/CaptiveNetworkSupport/Settings.plist

--jeroen

via:

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Building `libssh2` for Windows (Win32/Win64) is a lot harder than I hoped for

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/09

Building libssh2 for Windows (Win32/Win64) is a lot harder than I hoped for.

There were no instructions on their website, there was the occasional “use CMake” at #IRC and that was about it.

Of course running just CMake doesn’t work and getting it working involves a lot of non-descriptive error messages, cursing and fruitless searches for them just bumping into “me too” threads not really providing the solution.

I tried building OpenSSL but after building, no `lib` directory appears so I cannot satisfy the dependencies. Not sure what OpenSSL would bring as I could not find any documentation about it either, so I’ll leave it at that.

Might be that `make test` for OpenSSL doesn’t succeed because some vague non-explained error which is odd when doing this on an almost prestine VS 2015 Community Edition VM.

But I’ll take that up with the OpenSSL people one day.

Oh the joy of Open Source…

Below are the steps (below the –more– mark a gist with the most recent version).

The core are these:

  • you need git, Visual Studio and CMake
  • use CMake to generate project files, msbuild to build (CBuild cannot build any more)
  • After a Win64 build you have to reset the platform to create a Win32 build

These links helped a lot some in the positive, others in the negative sense:

libssh2-build-steps.rst
  1. Install Visual Studio 2015 community edition from https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs.aspx (as of writing:http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/2/3/D23F4D0F-BA2D-4600-8725-6CCECEA05196/vs_community_ENU.exe or http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/d/bedddfc4-55f4-4748-90a8-ffe38a40e89f/vs2015.3.com_enu.iso )
  2. Download CMake via https://cmake.org/download/ back then https://cmake.org/files/v3.6/cmake-3.6.2-win64-x64.msi
  3. Install and ensure to add CMake to the PATH for all users:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ss5xke97iy4yyka/Screenshot%202016-09-13%2009.36.54.png?raw=1

  1. Run this script on a new command-line: 
    git clone https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2.git
pushd libssh2
mkdir buildWin64
pushd buildWin64
:: Generate build for MSVS 2015
cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14 Win64" -D"BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1"

:: this fails bitching about v100 not being there:
:: cmake --build . --config "Visual Studio 14 Win64"
:: this just works:
set Platform=
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat"
call msbuild libssh2.sln
dumpbin /headers example\Debug\libssh2.dll | find "machine"
popd
mkdir buildWin32
pushd buildWin32
:: Generate build for MSVS 2015
cmake .. -G"Visual Studio 14" -D"BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1"

set Platform=
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
call msbuild libssh2.sln
dumpbin /headers example\Debug\libssh2.dll | find "machine"
popd
popd

Source: Building libssh2 for Windows (Win32/Win64) is a lot harder than I hoped for

–jeroen

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The SSH Port 22 story

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/28

The story isn’t a catch-22, but it is still fun to read:

SSH port is 22. The history of how I (Tatu Ylonen) got it. How to configure it through firewalls and iptables.

It also shows how agile the Internet was back then.

Source: [Archive.is] SSH Port

Via: [WayBack] “The SSH (Secure Shell) port is 22. It is not a co-incidence. This is a story I (Tatu Ylonen) haven’t told before.” https://www.ssh.com/ssh/port – This is why I Code – Google+

–jeroen

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Some ChromeCast URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/01

I need to check these against a Chromecast v2 as the below URLs are from a v1 device:

More is possible by using cURL: Chromecast Hacking Has Begun | fiquett.com

sleep 8h; while true; do
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://192.168.71.113:8008/apps/YouTube -X POST -d 'v=somevideo';
done

Related:

–jeroen

via:

Thoughts on a Chromecast Alarm app?
byu/akhilcacharya inChromecast

Posted in Chromecast, Communications Development, Development, Google, Hardware Interfacing, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, REST, Security, TCP | 3 Comments »

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