[Wtfibs-devel] Implementing the FIBS client protocol

[Brett K. <in...@in...>]

With the Backgammon library just about finished, it's time to start thinking
about handling the FIBS part of the deal.

Here's is sort of a braindump of everything I know (or think I know) about =
how
FIBS works:

- The server listens on port 4321, but this should be configurable since I'm
  sure there is more than on server out there running this software.
- They're sent as plain text, ala "command args"
- It's rumored that the server requires 1 second between each command that =
is
  sent (which really shouldn't be a big deal, since there won't be much of a
  need for sending commands any faster than that).  Throttling should also =
be
  configurable.

I don't think there's much more to it than that.  Now, the protocol describ=
es
quite a few commands/messages (something like 60-80, judging by a quick scan
of the web page), so we'll need handlers for each of them...

As far as how the socket itself will work, I'm pretty sure a vanilla python
socket will do the trick, since we're only going to be communicating with a
single host.  I'm very open to suggestions here, since my level of knowledge
in this area is somewhat lacking :)

As James said earlier, barring unforeseen issue, the backgammon lib portion=
 of
the code will be considered "closed" if nobody raises any serious objections
to it in the next couple of days.  Please let me know if this is a problem.

That's all for now, looking forward to hearing reactions to this stuff...
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Brett Kelly
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