Network API

[sphinxc0re]

I've got UDP working quite nicely, I even wrote a simple plugin that broadcasts the server's existence on LAN (so that vanilla client sees the local servers automatically without the need to add them - http://wiki.vg/Lan_Worlds)

Now I just need to make it compile under Linux, there are so many minor incompatibilities in there! Functions taking size_t instead of int params, etc.

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Plugin's here: https://github.com/madmaxoft/LANBroadcaster

You should implement this into core

[NiLSPACE]

I disagree. Keep it in a separate plugin. Vanilla servers aren't shown automatically either.

[Raekye]

I've got UDP working quite nicely, I even wrote a simple plugin that broadcasts the server's existence on LAN (so that vanilla client sees the local servers automatically without the need to add them - http://wiki.vg/Lan_Worlds)

Wow, sounds and looks awesome. Sorry I said I'd try to help and ended up doing nothing xD >.< But I'll see what I can do about a query plugin, school just really picked up suddenly

Edit: Got this working https://github.com/Raekye/MCServer-Query.../Query.lua , as per http://wiki.vg/Query

[NiLSPACE]

Small question about the Network API.
Can I also leave the Port parameter empty and put it in the host?
For example: "cNetwork:Connect('ftp://myhost.org:21', nil, Callbacks)"

[xoft]

No, that won't work, the Host param is already too overloaded and the parser would be needlessly complicated. Also, the "ftp://" prefix shouldn't go there either.

[NiLSPACE]

Ah okay. I was investigating if we could maybe connect to an mysql server through the network API instead of a library, and the only clue I found was this

[xoft]

That would be possible, but impractical - the network API is async, but you want the SQL database to by synchronous. Not to mention that the entire communication protocol would need to be ported. Too much work. Using an ODBC connector seems like a much better way to do this.

[NiLSPACE]

Is it maybe possible that the network connection doesn't release the memory properly? I noticed for a while that RAM doesn't go down when nobody is online, and it sometimes even goes up. When it goes up I pretty much always had the Core's webchat tab open, and since that tab keeps connecting to the server every X seconds (and thus creating a new connection), I thought it could be possible that the network could be the problem. I notice this on both Linux (gallery server) and Windows (local).

[NiLSPACE]

Anyone know how I can connect to a https website? I tried this:

a_Link:StartTLSClient("", "", "")
local ConnectionString = "GET /mc-server/WorldEdit/master/Info.lua HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: raw.githubusercontent.com\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n"
a_Link:Send(ConnectionString)

But I don't get any data in return when I do that.

[xoft]

Isn't "Content-length" required when using keep-alive connections? Or try using a non-keep-alive connection, possibly even HTTP/1.0, just to see if you get any data at all.