HalfLife/Cstrike monitorring

[Terry Reedy]

"Guyon Morée" <gumuz at looze.net> wrote in message
news:3fd84154$0$251$4d4ebb8e at news.nl.uu.net...
> Hi all,
>
> I want to write a HalfLife/CStrike monitor, to make some nice statistics
for
> an upcoming LAN-party. I've found some pointers on how to use the
protocol,
> but now I have to do the following:
>
> 1. make an UDP connection
> 2. send a string(?) like  '\xFF\xFF\xFF\xFFdetails\x00'
> 3. translate the response into bytes and strings :-s
>
> for more details on this protocol see:
> http://dev.kquery.com/index.php?article=31
>
> I hope someone can help me with at least the first 2 steps.

Try Googling 'Python HalfLife monitor' (200+ hits).  'Python UDP monitor'
gets you to more general info (first is UDP support in Twisted).

TJR