[bfprog] Client rcon

[Steven Hartland]

Indeed this is the case how ever you may wish to wait
ModManager is now in final testing and will provide a fully
extensible rcon implementation as well as quite a few bug
fixes to the current one :)

    Steve / K
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Forrest Thiessen" <thiessen at cyberscapearena.com>
To: "Battlefield Programming" <bfprog at lists.matureasskickers.net>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [bfprog] Client rcon


> ScratchMonkey wrote:
> 
>> Can the client use any Python to implement its own rcon? It would be
>> nice if one could leave the client running when consulting an external
>> browser, and have the browser send the join command via the rcon port.
>> I was just looking at the online ASE manual
>> (<http://us.games2.yimg.com/download.games.yahoo.com/games/ase/manual/aseusr25.pdf>)
>> and section 2.5 shows that it can communicate with other programs via
>> DDE, which suggests that one might be able to inject the join command
>> into a running client if it's got the right listening code.
>>
> Interesting thought; I believe the Battlefield 2 Server/admin/default.py
> file actually implements the *full* RCon functionality--opens a socket
> on port 4711 and listens there for commands, which it sends to the game
> engine with a host.rcon_invoke method.  It does password checking and
> the works.  Anything you want RCon to do differently, I think you can
> accomplish by changing this module.
> 
> Or. . . it looks to me like things were designed to accomodate custom
> RCon interfaces; write your own RCon in a new module, say, Battlefield 2
> Server/admin/custom_rcon.py, (or, much easier, copy the existing one and
> edit it), then in ServerSettings.con, put
>    sv.adminScript "custom_rcon"
> and it looks to me the game engine will load your RCon instead of the
> standard one.
> 
> I'm sure you could go a lot further with this--you could implement a web
> server in your replacement RCon script and create a web-based admin
> interface, for example.  I'm not sure using BF2 as a web server is wise,
> but if you kept things lite, it might end up being more efficient that
> the current RCon (all those "update" cycles it uses can't help game
> performance).
> 
> I haven't tried any of this yet. . . just thinking aloud. . . hmmm. . . .
> 
> --Forrest (aka "Woody")
> 
> 
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