Links the game for its message structs, reads the components of every LOT at startup, and decodes a capture's
replica packets once, in timeline order, on a worker thread.
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/api/inspector/sessions/:id/worlds lists the captured characters' moves between
world servers with the zone's name from the locale; /positions also returns them,
takes ?zone=all and names each track's character and zone.
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The Packet Captures page (/inspector/packets, dev_message_inspector) arms captures with a
search picker (part of an account or character name, or a pasted account or object ID; online
ones marked; everything needs no pick), lists running and saved ones live (packet_capture
topic), and plays one back on its timeline: play, pause, seek and speed, packets appearing in
order with their decoded fields and bytes. World 3D takes ?capture=<id>&zone=<zone> and replays
the captured position updates in its replay mode; the capture page's playhead drives it over a
BroadcastChannel. Saved packet captures show in the Message Inspector's list and open there.
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Staff arm a packet capture on the dashboard; master passes MESSAGE_CAPTURE_CONTROL ARM to
every world, auth and chat and arms its own. Each server's PacketCapture tap (dServer receive,
and a send hook in RakPeer::Send so replica constructions are seen too) records into one
preallocated chunk per server and ships sealed chunks through master on the main loop when
capture_flush_bytes or capture_flush_interval_ms is reached; past capture_buffer_max_mb the
oldest chunks are dropped and the dashboard records a gap. Nothing is armed: one flag check.
- targets: an account (from its login; packets before the login are kept per connection
and added once auth or the world knows whose they are), a character (from when it is
picked), or everything; up to 8 at once (a bit each in the record mask)
- worlds and auth record their clients' packets and the master link messages of a captured
player (session keys by name, zone transfers by request, player added/removed, migration);
chat finds the player in each packet; master records server traffic for everything
- secrets are never recorded: structs that carry them (login request, login response user
key, world validation session key, session key messages between servers) are read,
blanked and written again before recording; auth keeps only the handshake and login
- PacketDecoder: a registry by service and message id names every packet and decodes the
registered structs; CaptureBundle is the file format (DLUBNDL1, metadata, records);
CaptureTools orders records on one timeline, pulls movement out, makes bundles portable
or anonymous and diffs replays
- the dashboard keeps packet captures in message_capture_sessions (capture_kind 1) and
their packets in a file under capture_dir, one write per batch; arming is audited
- MESSAGE_CAPTURE_CONTROL/DATA only gain appended enum values and trailing fields
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