On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:04:53 +0930
Melissa Carley <chelta@...> wrote:

> Hey guys!
>
> Just wondering if anyone has managed to query Novaworld servers, such
> as Joint Ops, BHD, etc.
>
> If anyone has, can they let me know? Trying to query a few of those
> servers with no luck so far - would be very grateful if someone knows
> how to do this!

I haven't looked far into it personally, however take a look at the
JOPinger Win32 application from Nova-Inside:
<http://www.action-inside.com/Section_Main/page.php?sid=4&pid=120>

They also have similar applications for the rest of the DF series.

I'm unsure about exactly how the queries work, but I have a hunch that
you actually query the NovaWorld servers for information about them, and
you can only ping the servers themselves.

The NovaWorld communications are in HTTP or a HTTP-like protocol from
memory - a packet sniffer such as ethereal or tcpdump is your friend
here. There are a few URLs in the options menu too.

I've just remembered another system - it's a set of PHP scripts, called
NORAD, made by the DFS clan. Here's the example on their site:
<http://dfseals.net/jotr/norad.php>

It's under an odd licence, but available from here:
<http://dfseals.net/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=149>

Hope that's of some help to you,

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