Based on the spec provided below, I made the changes to my program to use the new master server.
I assumed the port hadn't changed - still 27010. When sending the first request, I assumed the "startIP" should be all zeros and always used a region code of '0' for testing. Q: Should the "startIP" include the port as well? First I treated the "startIP" as just an IP (4 bytes) in the initial query. I did get a response. I assumed that the response no longer returned the 4 byte 'batch id' and parsed from there. I got 9 IPs of server - all Counter-Strike. Q: How, if at all, has the response changed? I then tried to pass a filter string of "\gamedir\firearms" and I still got all CS servers. Not the response I was expecting. So, I tried constructing the query assuming that the "startIP" should include the port as well with the same results. This is exactly what I'm sending to the server: 31 00 00 00 00 00 5C 67 61 6D 65 64 69 72 5C 66 69 72 65 61 72 6D 73 00 i.e. '1' '0' '0000' '\gamedir\firearms' '\0' or 'A2M_GET_SERVERS_BATCH2' 'region code zero' 'startIP = all zeros' 'filter string\0' I also tried with "startIP" set to all zeros plus 2 bytes for the port. Either I'm doing something wrong or the Master server is not honoring my filter string. Anyone else have a better understanding of the new changes in the master server? (hopefully that's enough detail) Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfred Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:53 PM To: Half-Life Dedicated Server Applications Mailing List Subject: [hlds_apps] Master Server changes The upcoming steam release has a couple small changes to the hlmaster server protocol. Firstly the address for the master servers has changed, our public server can be accessed via hlmaster1.hlauth.net. This server currently doesn't have any servers listed as we have yet to release the steam client, but in the next day or two it will. We have also changed the "batch request" protocol. The new protocol consists of sending: WriteByte( A2M_GET_SERVERS_BATCH2 ); // character '1' WriteByte( 2 );// write the region we want info on WriteString( startIP ); // the first ip address we are interested in WriteString(filterString); // a backslash delimited string for filtering of servers The change has been adding the region field and changing the batch parameter to use the last IP you received rather than a counter. Valid values for the region are between 0-7 and the correspond to the following geographical areas: 0: US East coast 1: US West coast 2: South America 3: Europe 4: Asia 5: Australia 6: Middle East 7: Africa If you don't want the master server to do any filtering you can just send NULL for the filter parameter. If you develop a tool that uses our master servers and you need any clarifications on these changes please feel free to email me. - Alfred _______________________________________________ hlds_apps mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_apps _______________________________________________ hlds_apps mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_apps
