I am not using a ROM mud, but I started with it.
The current mud that I am working on, I also used polling for connections.
(You could not really call mine a mud yet since you could not do anything on
it.)
When I wanted to open a different port, the simple way of doing it as
Simmons described occured to me, and it does not seem hard.
But I have one question.
If I do it this way, it is basically one program running listening on two
ports.
This is NOT what I want.
If I open the mud twice on different ports, then it will be two programs
running,
that will cause my users on the two different ports non-interactive.
What I want is two programs running yet able to communicate.
One way I thought of is making the two programs connect to each other using
peer to peer (or just server-client) TCP/IP connection on the local machine.
Yet this will restrain my communications to be only of text. (Or maybe not?)
If, for instance, I want all the wiz to only get wiz power on the wiz-port,
yet able to talk to other regular players, it seems easy to just craft up a
small protocol and do it. But if I want to alter user information,
dynamically alter rooms, mobs, and objects, it would seems like I need to
write a LOT of code on both sides, one saying (of course in less verbose
sense) "I will change room vnum 387 exit 3 from whatever to room 386". And
this side that actually have the rooms is memory will answer "Sorry room 386
not found" and the wiz-side will send a note to the mistaken wiz. If I were
to let the wiz move around, I would have to do every single thing like this.
Or another alternative is to send "Htam slay foo" from wiz-side to the
normal-side, and let the normal-side do interp( get_char("Htam"), "slay
foo", TRUE/*indicating having wiz power*/ ) or whatever ROM is using (I kind
of forgot.) This will just cause the wiz-side to be a intermediate tunnel.
This is totally functional, but also totally useless, since the marking of
power can easily be done by setting a flag when accept()'ing the different
ports.
So having thrown out some solutions that I am not looking for, I hope to get
some feedback of other ways of doing this.
As a final note, I will expose my reason of doing this. I am a Taiwanese and
some of my friends only speak English and some only speak Chinese (ya, ya,
they should learn English,) so my mud is a bilingual mud. Every time I sent
them a message (from the system, not a `tell'), I will check for what
language they opted for and send them that version. (With a single function
call like, bprintf( vch, "%s english message here.\n\r", "%s chinese message
here.\n\r", ch->name ), which will do the check everytime.) Now I want to
just simply make my mud compile into English only or Chinese only by a
single macro at the top, and then I will have two versions that does not
perform this check every single send_to_char's, but now if I run one on port
2300 another on 2301, they will obviously be two seperate worlds. I hope to
make them walk on the same soil. Just a crazy thought.
Any ideas are welcome.Htam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:02 PM Subject: RE: Snippet/Walkthrough for making a mud listen on multiple ports . > > --- Jason Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a good grasp of network programming (Have written several of my own > > cross platform mini web-servers, in fact). > > > > I was looking to save myself from inventing the wheel, actually. > > I found a web server snippet from somewhere and ganked the stuff I needed. > > > So, having written your own web servers, you didn't realize that all you needed > to do was bind to another sockaddr, listen on the socket, and add the file > descriptor to your incoming fd_set? Seems fairly trivial to me. > > Or were you asking specifically about getting the mud to respond to the http > protocol? > > > ~Kender > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++: a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ > P+++(--)$ L+++>++++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O > M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t+ 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ > b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
