You might also want to look at the Wireshark module for MySQL: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/blob/master/epan/dissectors/packet-mysql.c https://github.

You might also want to look at the Wireshark module for MySQL: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/blob/master/epan/dissectors/packet-mysql.c https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/blob/master/epan/diss... It does all the work of figuring out what's a request/response and parsing / dumping out various parts of the protocol.