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Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the	data (S->C represents something the server sends to the client, C->S represents something the client sends to the server.) In terms of all binary values

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more	difficult (you needed to first port over eutl.) An example such of this is the Java client. Also

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a	fairly (but not totally) complete client/server that used his eutl package. This package pretty much set up packets with subpackets - these subpackets would have a tag for the data type

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB	order (same as eutl used). MSB order is also network byte order. This includes the initial length information

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems	plenty (gives a maximum packet of 32767 - I can 't see ever going beyond a few thousand, simply because in a fast action game, transmission size of such a packet would probably not make things playable.) While saving 2 bytes might not be much

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Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit	Also

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As	always

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some	cases

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his	client

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text	command

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important	details

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of	development

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well	documented

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under	eutl

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at	first

Crossfire Protocol	Handbook

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be	inadequate

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing	IRC

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method	is

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing	lists

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to	me

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable	Nevertheless

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For	now

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in	others

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of	packets

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire	server

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB as well as any ints or shorts that get sent inside the packets All packets are defined to have at least one word of followed by a	space

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as	strings

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB as well as any ints or shorts that get sent inside the packets All packets are defined to have at least one word of	text

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself	Thus

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after	transmission

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data	types

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly	well

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format	~ IMPORTANT

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History	~ Originally

Function Documentation

◆ data()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the data	(	S->C represents something the server sends to the	client,
		C->S represents something the client sends to the	server.
	)

◆ difficult()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more difficult ( you needed to first port over eutl. )

◆ fairly()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a fairly ( but not totally )

◆ order()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB order ( same as eutl used )

◆ plenty()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems plenty	(	gives a maximum packet of 32767 - I can 't see ever going beyond a few	thousand,
		simply because in a fast action	game,
		transmission size of such a packet would probably not make things	playable.
	)

◆ written()

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already written ( for a long time )

Variable Documentation

◆ Also

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit Also

Definition at line 40 of file protocol.txt.

◆ always

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As always

Definition at line 23 of file protocol.txt.

◆ cases

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some cases

Definition at line 73 of file protocol.txt.

◆ client

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new client

Definition at line 43 of file protocol.txt.

◆ command

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text command

Definition at line 63 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by cf_system_unregister_command(), command_execute(), command_find(), command_unregister(), get_command(), and new_player_cmd().

◆ details

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important details

Definition at line 10 of file protocol.txt.

◆ development

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of development

Definition at line 32 of file protocol.txt.

◆ documented

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well documented

Definition at line 40 of file protocol.txt.

◆ eutl

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under eutl

Definition at line 72 of file protocol.txt.

◆ first

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at first

Definition at line 20 of file protocol.txt.

◆ Handbook

Crossfire Protocol Handbook

Initial value:

===========================
Crossfire Development Team <crossfire@metalforge.org>
:numbered:
:toc:
 
This handbook is the collective result of various authors compiled together
over the course of many years

Definition at line 2 of file protocol.txt.

◆ inadequate

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be inadequate

Definition at line 13 of file protocol.txt.

◆ IRC

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing IRC

Definition at line 24 of file protocol.txt.

◆ is

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method is

Definition at line 54 of file protocol.txt.

◆ lists

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing lists

Definition at line 24 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by TreasureListWrapper::drop(), TreasureWrapper::drop(), TreasurePanel::dropEvent(), and MessageFile::parseFile().

◆ me

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to me

Definition at line 56 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by check_name().

◆ Nevertheless

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable Nevertheless

Definition at line 10 of file protocol.txt.

◆ now

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For now

Definition at line 71 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by animate(), command_banish(), get_sleep_remaining(), gravestone_text(), LOG(), seconds(), and store_time().

◆ others

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in others

Definition at line 73 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by monster_communicate().

◆ packets

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of packets

Definition at line 68 of file protocol.txt.

◆ server

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire server

Definition at line 18 of file protocol.txt.

◆ space

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB as well as any ints or shorts that get sent inside the packets All packets are defined to have at least one word of followed by a space

Definition at line 85 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by command_quest(), command_reset(), do_follow(), FaceLoader::load(), load_bells(), and load_citylife().

◆ strings

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as strings

Definition at line 73 of file protocol.txt.

◆ text

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format the outside packet method the byte size for the size information is not included here Eutl originally used bytes for the size to bytes seems it makes a least some sense The actual data is something of the nature of the commands listed below It is a text followed by possible other data The remaining data can be binary it is up to the client and server to decode what it sent The commands as described below is just the data portion of the packet If writing a new remember that you must take into account the size of the packet There is no termination of other than knowing how long it should be For most everything that is sent is text This is more or less how things worked under except it packed the ints into bytes in a known order In some we handle ints as in they are sent as binary information How any command handles it is detailed below in the command description The S and C represent the direction of the we use MSB as well as any ints or shorts that get sent inside the packets All packets are defined to have at least one word of text

Definition at line 84 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by inja::Lexer::clear_final_line_if_whitespace(), convert(), createItem(), CREStringListPanel::createItem(), inja::Token::describe(), CRESubItemConnection::editChanged(), get_dialog_message(), MessageLoader::load(), inja::Parser::load_file(), make_formula_book(), matches(), CREResourcesWindow::onReportChange(), inja::Parser::parse_expression(), inja::Parser::parse_statement(), inja::Lexer::scan(), send_query(), and CRERandomMapPanel::updateItem().

◆ Thus

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself Thus

Definition at line 35 of file protocol.txt.

◆ transmission

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after transmission

Definition at line 36 of file protocol.txt.

◆ types

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data types

Definition at line 36 of file protocol.txt.

Referenced by buildShopReport(), command_applymode(), command_bowmode(), command_petmode(), and command_usekeys().

◆ well

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly well

Definition at line 39 of file protocol.txt.

◆ ~ IMPORTANT

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History the communications plan was set to be a text based system It was up to the server and client to parse these messages and determine what to do These messages were assumed to be line per message At a reasonably early stage of Eric Anderson wrote a then the data itself you could send many data and after the other end could decode these commands This works fairly but I think the creation of numerous sub packets has some performance hit the eutl was not especially well so writing a client for a different platform became more Eric left to work on other products shortly after writing his which didn t really leave anyone with a full understanding of the socket code I have decided to remove the eutl dependency At least one advantage is that having this network related code directly in the client and server makes error handling a bit easier cleaner Packet Format ~ IMPORTANT

Definition at line 52 of file protocol.txt.

◆ ~ Originally

Crossfire Protocol most of the time after the actual code was already omit certain important and possibly make life miserable any new developer or curious player should be able to find most of the relevant information here If inconsistencies are found or this documentation proves to be consider the latest server side protocol code in the public source code repository as the authoritative reference Introduction If you were ever curious enough to telnet or netcat to a Crossfire chances are you were sorely disappointed While the protocol may seem to use plain text at it actually uses a mix of ASCII and binary data This handbook attempts to document various aspects of the Crossfire protocol As consult the README file to find out how to get in touch with helpful people via mailing and more History ~ Originally

Definition at line 28 of file protocol.txt.

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