Pythonic poker client

[Erik Max Francis]

hardieca at hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm assuming that I need to figure out the port it uses, find the
> server, analyze the packets for commands, and then build an app that
> masquerades as the real client.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with this?

If you're using one of the major sites, what you are trying to do is 
essentially impossible.  It is very likely that the transmissions are 
encrypted via SSL.  Furthermore, such sites may well actively check for 
clients sending invalid data -- something your client will almost 
certainly do at first even if you did somehow manage to crack the 
encryption -- as a tipoff to modified clients and bots.

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