HalfLife/Cstrike monitorring

[Erik Max Francis]

"Guyon Morée" wrote:

> 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.

It sounds like you just want a server statistics package, of which there
are many available.  See Google; a good one is PsychoStats.  There's
really no need for you to reinvent the wheel here.

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