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OpenJK (Jedi Academy) huffman decode then re-encode
// HUFFMAN TEST, NOTE YOU HAVE TO START PACKETS AT 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff
// This is a captured "connect" packet in Wireshark
unsigned char og_packet[] = {
0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x63, 0x6f, 0x6e, 0x6e, 0x65, 0x63, 0x74, 0x20, 0x01, 0x42, 0x44, 0x74,
0x70, 0x88, 0x0d, 0x0c, 0xc7, 0x25, 0xcc, 0xc4, 0x1e, 0x9c, 0x8e, 0xad, 0x86, 0x5d, 0xb0, 0x74,
0xa3, 0x4f, 0x9c, 0x81, 0xc9, 0x63, 0xdd, 0xc3, 0xb8, 0xb1, 0x70, 0xaa, 0xc1, 0xb4, 0x14, 0xf3,
0xa8, 0x80, 0x56, 0x60, 0xfa, 0x30, 0x10, 0xac, 0x17, 0x4e, 0x80, 0x03, 0xe2, 0x0f, 0xf3, 0x6b,
0x1f, 0x1c, 0x3f, 0x06, 0x8d, 0x27, 0x2c, 0xb4, 0xc0, 0x96, 0xfc, 0x3d, 0x5a, 0xaf, 0x78, 0xa8,
0x28, 0xf5, 0x2f, 0xc1, 0x2e, 0xae, 0xea, 0x27, 0x9c, 0xb1, 0x81, 0x15, 0x63, 0xd4, 0x0f, 0xae,
0xd0, 0x52, 0xd5, 0x1f, 0x6d, 0xad, 0xb2, 0xbd, 0x7e, 0x7e, 0x9d, 0x9b, 0x93, 0x8b, 0x90, 0xf0,
0x3b, 0xe4, 0xef, 0x7f, 0x7c, 0xb7, 0xa5, 0x92, 0xa3, 0xf2, 0xe9, 0xd3, 0x4f, 0xd5, 0xeb, 0x24,
0x03, 0xfa, 0xfc, 0x3a, 0x8c, 0x99, 0x74, 0x4b, 0xd3, 0x02, 0xca, 0xa8, 0x8f, 0xfe, 0x15, 0x0a,
0xeb, 0x46, 0x21, 0xf9, 0x15, 0x85, 0x18, 0xb2, 0xaa, 0x35, 0x1e, 0x5e, 0x3d, 0x1e, 0x7f, 0x6f,
0x1f, 0xad, 0xc1, 0x1f, 0xf7, 0xff, 0x63, 0xc5, 0xb5, 0x2d, 0xa7, 0x58, 0x49, 0x77, 0x17, 0x25,
0xe7, 0x3b, 0x5e, 0xe8, 0x9a, 0xb8, 0xd7, 0x9a, 0x1c, 0xc7, 0x80, 0x4e, 0x7d, 0x2a, 0xe2, 0xdc,
0x8f, 0x87, 0x28, 0x12, 0xd1, 0xc9, 0x05, 0xcd, 0x4e, 0x12, 0xe8, 0x90, 0x30, 0x9e, 0x94, 0x40,
0xe8, 0xf3, 0x4a, 0xdc, 0x30, 0x3a, 0xcd, 0xe2, 0x83, 0xca, 0x6a, 0xbb, 0xde, 0x3d, 0x66, 0xa7,
0x67, 0xed, 0x40, 0x9f, 0xe0, 0x90, 0x02, 0xcd, 0xe4, 0x1f, 0x6a, 0x30, 0x5b, 0x7d, 0xa6, 0xea,
0x64, 0x73, 0x06, 0x6e, 0x67, 0x24, 0xac, 0xdd, 0x59, 0x00
};
// make a new msg_t for huffman decode
msg_t msg2;
byte userinfo[MAX_MSGLEN];
char* s2;
Com_Memcpy(userinfo, og_packet, sizeof(og_packet));
MSG_Init(&msg2, userinfo, sizeof(userinfo));
msg2.cursize = sizeof(og_packet);
MSG_BeginReadingOOB(&msg2); // NOTE: This resets everything
MSG_ReadLong(&msg2); // skip the -1 marker // NOTE: This reads the bits to get the length
Huff_Decompress(&msg2, 12);
s2 = MSG_ReadStringLine(&msg2);
Com_Printf("DEBUG: TEST PACKET %s\n", s2); // NOTE: s2 is now in a readable string
// TAKE OUR DECODED MSG AND RE-ENCODE IT
char data[MAX_INFO_STRING + 10];
Com_sprintf(data, sizeof(data), "%s", s2);
byte* format = (byte *)data;
byte string[MAX_MSGLEN];
int i;
// set the header
string[0] = 0xff;
string[1] = 0xff;
string[2] = 0xff;
string[3] = 0xff;
for (i = 0; i < strlen(data); i++) {
string[i + 4] = format[i];
}
msg_t mbuf;
//MSG_Init(&mbuf, string, sizeof(string));
mbuf.data = string;
mbuf.cursize = strlen(data) + 4;
Huff_Compress(&mbuf, 12);
PrintHex(mbuf.data, mbuf.cursize, "POST-COMPRESSION BUFFER");
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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