Talk:Source RCON Protocol
This article was taken from a HLDS_APPS posting by Alfred Reynolds.
Additional Remarks have been added to Alfred's Documentation. This is taken from the KQuery Wiki (http://wikki.kquery.net/), as unfortunately the page is defaced. One can dig deeply through the revision history to obtain the information, some of which is vital to creating a working implementation.. I have taken the liberty of echoing it here. 20:51, 4 Feb 2006 - Erik Hollensbe
The C app (CLI / rcon.c) unfortunately does not work for me. I either get 'authentication failed' or 'Illegal size -559038737'. Maybe the app does not like 64bit Linux. Other apps (like SRCDS.py) work just fine but their code is hard to understand, and they require Python and the like. I googled for a better C implementation but couldn't come up with anything. Too bad there isn't a more official tool for this, as it can be really useful for maintaining servers remotely. Andreas Klauer 06:13, 14 Jul 2008 (PDT)
Packets splitting confusion
I have Ruby code able to receive really long RCON responses from Source servers. This works (even for cvarlist = 43 packets) almost flawlessly.
But cvarlist (and maybe other requests) fails in around 1 of 4 tries. The problem is that the packet size of the split packets is wrong. It doesn't show the complete size of the packet, but only until the first zero-byte (0x00, the end of the first string component). In my experience the second string component isn't used very often, so the response is a string terminated by 2 zero-bytes in almost all cases. It's quite interesting that this error happens when the text of the response is split into the two strings. Even more interesting is that this happens always in the same section of the text (for cvarlist just in the middle of the description for ai_show_connect).
In the moment I'm pretty sure this is a bug in Source as I can't imagine a purpose of this random behavior. --Koraktor 10:20, 8 Dec 2008 (PST)
- I'd post that on hlcoders. --TomEdwards 10:47, 8 Dec 2008 (PST)
- Already had that in mind. Thanks for the reminder. ;) --Koraktor 11:06, 8 Dec 2008 (PST)