[QStat-devx] New GP Query Info + Qstat's New Logo

[Pierre S. <pi...@un...>]

Hey All,

Attached is the new Qstat logo. Steve J reviewed it last week (see 
attached). Let me know what you think.

Now that we have the identity sorted out I plan to get to work on the 
new qstat website. Hopefully we can get that out sooner rather then later.

BF2 Special forces uses the new GP query. Todd sent the below info - If 
anyone gets some time it would be great if we can implement that into CVS.

I'm going to develop a test suit for qstat (in perl) that will check all 
all aspects of qstat before release. So let me know of any new features 
that will need to be added.

A website feature will be a config creater. Currently its very criptic 
for new users on adding new games. If you could send me a list of all 
the games you have setup in your config, i'll collate everything together.

Thanks :)

Best Regards,

P.

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Here's some info on how the challenge will work.

Before sending a qr2 query (type 0x00) the client must first send a
challenge request (type 0x09).  The host will respond with the same
packet type containing a string signed integer.

Once the challenge is received the client should convert the string to a
network byte order integer and embed it in the keys query.

Example:

       challenge request: [0xFE][0xFD][0x09][0x.. 4-byte-instance]
	challenge response: [0x09][0x.. 4-byte-instance]["-1287574694"]
	query: [0xFE][0xFD][0x00][0x.. 4-byte-instance][0xb3412b5a
"-1287574694"]

If the host requires the new protocol but the client doesn't perform the
challenge/response, the client will receive no response from the server.

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