Thanks for your help everyone! I'm sure I can find what I need in the links and info provided.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Detritus Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS Hmm I couldn't find anything in the VERC articles unless I searched with the wrong words. :P Best I found was the protocol information from the SDK on the forums. http://www.chatbear.com/uploaded/1004597016-server%20protocol.txt ^ Might have to register to see it but I doubt it unless it's protected by .htaccess Anyway I think the original poster has all the information now to begin building something. :) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlcoders- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ryan "Professional Victim" > Desgroseilliers > Sent: 02 January 2003 05:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > Yeah, the articles there work nicely (although they do use Delphi which > may > not be particularly intuitive) -- there was also one at the VERC > collective as well if I'm not mistaken. The RCON format used to be > fairly straightforward, but then it was modified to use a challenge > protocol to > make it more secure or something to that effect. It's still a relatively > simple operation, you just need two messages instead of one. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Detritus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 6:44 PM > Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > > > The master server protocol in the SDK is a bit outdated but it still > works except it will just send you 200+ random IP:Port's. I suggest > reading through KQuery's article which explains how to use the > updated protocol to get a full list of servers (around 28,000) as well > as use filters. http://www.kquery.com/developer/index.php?article=5 > Also KQuery has written an article on the rcon protocol so that might be > handy to read through. > http://www.kquery.com/developer/index.php?article=13 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlcoders- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ryan "Professional Victim" > > Desgroseilliers > > Sent: 02 January 2003 05:01 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > > > Of course you can format packets in WinSock, WinSock is the Windows > > network sockets API. Essentially all the network connectivity > > functions for Windows > > programs run through WinSock, even Half-Life's. Some of the MFC stuff > that > > uses WinSock may be higher-level, but WinSock itself can send TCP and > UDP > > packets just fine. You need to do more to use raw sockets to write the > > whole > > packet yourself, including the protocol header (and that only works > for > > administrator accounts under 2K/XP), but as Half-Life uses UDP for > > non-player connections there shouldn't be a problem. > > > > The packet format should be in the full SDK (at least it used to be) > -- > > it's > > in a "Server Info" folder with the name "server protocol.txt". It > contains > > both the old and new formats for querying server info, as well as the > > master > > server query protocol, but the RCON protocol isn't there. If you need > > that, > > I'm sure I can dig it up. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Miguel Alemán" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 3:58 PM > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > > > > > > You can't format packets in WinSock. WinSock is a higher level > protocol. > > > > > > Try searching the newsgroup database (maybe the old one on Topica), > I > > > remember a thread where they discussed the format for sending > commands > > to > > > the dedicated server using C. You could also try searching Yahoo for > an > > open > > > source utility which does the same thing, many exist and from the > code > > you > > > could see how the commands are formatted. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:50 AM > > > Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > > > > > > > > > Looking for the packet format. Looking to do some Winsock > programming > > > > but completely lost the structure to send/receive about a year > ago. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick > > McLaren > > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 1:20 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Sending commands to HLDS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The format of the packet or format of the data. The data is > actually > > the > > > > same as the way the log entries show up in the local logs. You can > > also > > > > view raw logs via HLSW (www.hlsw.de) to see how it is received. As > far > > > > as sending commands to HLDS I assume you mean either to retrieve > > status > > > > information about the server or via RCON which I'm certain you can > > > > either find an object for or use sockets. Of course I don't have > the > > > > protocol data handy, so I guess I'm not a whole lot of help there! > > Hey, > > > > I tried! hehe! ;) > > > > > > > > --------------------------- > > > > Nick McLaren, CCNA, SCSA > > > > BattleLAN Technical Admin > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > http://www.battlelan.com/ > > > > --------------------------- > > > > > > > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Dan Cox wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > > > -- > > > > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Hello all, > > > > > I used to have this info a few years ago but it's been lost > > since. > > > > > > > > > I need to know where to look in the SDK to find the info on how > to > > > > > send commands to HLDS using Visual Basic or C. I'd also like to > > find > > > > > the format that the data is sent when logging to a remote > computer > > > > > using the 'logaddress' cvar. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > > archives, > > > > > > > > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > > please visit: > > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, > > please visit: > > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
