There should be no problems with opening a socket (udp or tcp) from a 3rd party plugin. The only thing to worry about is blocking for too long when reading from the socket (and potentially writing). Make sure the socket is non-blocking and do a zero time select() to poll the socket for data to read.
Brian A. Stumm wrote:
perhaps this would have been better for teh apps list, if so please tell me ;)
Ok so I've been told that adding another connection or socket to a hlds server is not a good thing to do. Is this true and why? By socket I mean via one of the engine->hook->mod methods (ie botman/metamod/et al). Is it worse depending on tcp vs udp?
I'm looking for a way to send data to an external parser without spamming the console. I'm talking about a fair amount of data coming out fairly often. By that I mean a few updates a second with data pertinent to player coordinates and current player status ie health, armor, current weapon, etc.
And if a secondary socket is out of question anyone have any ideas on alternate ways to retrieve this data? dump to db perhaps? Or would that socket connect to the db server be just as evil?
Thanks.
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