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Hints at the data structures used for requests, responses, and logging. |
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Revision as of 19:38, 25 September 2025
Scattered notes on reverse engineering how the Mac OS 9 Software Update system works.
URL?
In the Software Update Engine extension, resource ulsu ID = 128 has this URL:
Unfortunately, no samples of this XML file seem to be archived anywhere.
XML templates
Hints at the data structures used for requests, responses, and logging.
Log format
From STR# ID = 20000, then prettyprinted. Caret-prefixed numbers are template placeholders.
<DOCUMENT>
<VERSION>0</VERSION>
<LOG>
<DATE>^0</DATE>
<NAME>^1</NAME>
<VERSION>^2</VERSION>
<STATUS>^3</STATUS>
</LOG>
<!-- additional log entries... -->
</DOCUMENT>
Network traffic?
I have not done any disassembly yet, so these notes come from poking around in ResEdit.
- Files may have used binhex, StuffIt, and self-extracting archives.[1][2]
- Though the baked-in URL is
http://, the following are likely also supported:ftp://,https://,urlproxy:(?), andfile:///.[3]
