Gavin Andresen - 2011-11-10 14:24:28

@Gavin Andresen
I've been making slow but steady progress on my at-the-network-level testing tool. [...]

What's working:  python-based code that serializes/deserializes messages in both bitcoin's binary format (to talk to the node being tested) and JSON (so it is easy for us humans to tweak/examine test data). Connecting and requesting all blocks.

Where can I get my hands on that? I was looking for something like this for a long while.

https://github.com/gavinandresen/Bitcoin-protocol-test-harness
Start with dumpblocks.py