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        <h2>Tools</h2>
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          Tools are becoming available for implementing systems with CoAP.
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          <h2>
            <a href='http://coap.me'>coap.me</a>
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            Access CoAP nodes via HTTP, analyze pcaps (tcpdump/wireshark packet capture files)
            and run the ETSI interoperability tests against your server on
            this simple interactive website.
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            <a class='btn' href='http://coap.me'>View details &raquo;</a>
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            Additional resources are available at
            <a href='http://vs0.inf.ethz.ch'>vs0.inf.ethz.ch</a>
            including DTLS support.
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          <h3>Wireshark dissector</h3>
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            A protocol dissector for CoAP has been part of
            <a href='http://www.wireshark.org'>Wireshark</a>
            for quite some time, supporting the development of CoAP.
            The final CoAP protocol is supported by Wireshark 1.12, the
            <a href='http://www.wireshark.org/download.html'>stable version</a>
            of Wireshark.
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          <h3>crosscoap</h3>
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            A CoAP server which translates incoming CoAP requests to
            corresponding HTTP requests which are sent to a backend HTTP
            server; responses are translated to CoAP and sent over to the CoAP
            client.  crosscoap allows CoAP clients to consume content from an
            existing HTTP application, without adding specific CoAP
            functionality to the application itself.
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            <a class='btn' href='https://github.com/ibm-security-innovation/crosscoap'>View details &raquo;</a>
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          <h2>Interoperability testing</h2>
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            A number of interoperability tests have been defined by the ETSI plugtest organization.
            <a href='http://www.eclipse.org/californium/'>Californium</a>
            contains support for this test suite.
            Access tester implementations via
            <a href='http://coap.me'>coap.me</a>
            and read more details at:
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            <a class='btn' href='https://github.com/cabo/td-coap4/'>View details &raquo;</a>
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          <h3>Plugtest events</h3>
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            ETSI is also periodically running interoperability testing events (“plugtests”).
            A next date for one has not yet been set; to keep up to date send mail to the
            <a href='mailto:plugtests@etsi.org?subject=Next CoAP plugtest event?'>ETSI plugtests people.</a>
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          <h2>Tutorials</h2>
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            Zach Shelby has made available a CoAP overview and tutorial.
            <a href='http://community.arm.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/8633-102-2-15471/ARM%20CoAP%20Tutorial%20April%2030%202014.pdf'>Slides here;</a>
            watch at:
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            <a class='btn' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bSr5x5gKvA'>View details &raquo;</a>
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          <h2>Cheat sheet</h2>
          <p>A <a href="https://github.com/markushx/coap-cheatsheet/raw/master/coap-cheatsheet.pdf">cheatsheet</a> summarizing the frame structure, the option
           structure and the most important constants of CoAP is
           available at:</p>
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            <a class='btn' href='http://www.github.com/markushx/coap-cheatsheet/'>View details &raquo;</a>
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          <h2>Collected ABNF</h2>
          <p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234">ABNF</a> rules that are relevant to the formats around CoAP
           (link-format, URI syntax) is being collected at:</p>
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            <a class='btn' href='http://jaimejim.github.io/temp/coap-abnf'>View details &raquo;</a>
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