Say you wanted to post something to www.somewhere.com/asdf.pl
Open a TCP/IP stream to the server, probably on port 80, and send:

POST /somescript.pl HTTP/1.1
Host: www.somewhere.com
User-Agent: <probably the name of your program here>
Content-length: <how many bytes of data we''re sending>
<-- blank line.
<-- blank line.
<the data you wanted to send>

The server should return:

HTTP/1.1 <number> <some text>
<stuff you can ignore>

If that number is in the range of 200-299, then all is well. 400-499 would indicate and error.

Oh, you should also probably tell the server what you''re sending.

Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

is a likely choice.

thanks



... *goes to research tcp/ip streams

though the above sounds much more interesting, maybe take a look at mysql++ ?

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Original post by smart_idiot
Say you wanted to post something to www.somewhere.com/asdf.pl
Open a TCP/IP stream to the server, probably on port 80, and send:

POST /somescript.pl HTTP/1.1
Host: www.somewhere.com
User-Agent: <probably the name of your program here>
Content-length: <how many bytes of data we''re sending>
<-- blank line.
<-- blank line.
<the data you wanted to send>
 

The server should return:

HTTP/1.1 <number> <some text>
<stuff you can ignore>
 

If that number is in the range of 200-299, then all is well. 400-499 would indicate and error.

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99% correct, you just had one too many new lines (Not that it probably matters, but still..). HTTP Spec specifies TWO \n as the header-section terminator, but each header is terminated by a \n, so you only need one additional new line after the one that terminates the last header.

Content-type: text/html\n\n

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Original post by Ruudje
though the above sounds much more interesting, maybe take a look at mysql++ ?

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that looks good .. although id rather send the scores to a script and use mysql++ for reading the scores.

thanx for the replies

im slightly confused, what do you mean when you say open a tcp/ip stream , open a socket on port 80?

Beej''s Guide to Network Programming

Simple Stream Client

Note for Windows Programmers

<> strangely i was just reading that, in combination with game tutorials networking examples. thanks

Could you not cheat by sending faulty information to this script? How would you make sure the score is legitimate?

I''m curious because I''m interested in something similar myself.

well how would ~they~ know what/where the script is, and if they do know somehow you could just encrpyt -send- and decrypt in the script, although that would be slower and the article above mentions using ssl to encrypt/compress stuff, although i have very little idea what that it

Monitoring Internet Connections?

Reverse Engineering?

I imagine it''d probably be pretty easy to find out what the program is telling itself to find the script.

It's always possible to cheat. You can never trust anything from a clients computer. Your best way would be save the seed used to start the game along with what moves you made so the server can verify that everything you did was possible and added up to the correct score. Of course that still wouldn't stop cheating because there's no reason someone couldn't just write a program to play for them.

[edited by - smart_idiot on January 2, 2004 1:56:33 AM]

With really simple communications like that, I''m sure it''d be easy for someone who knows what they''re doing to use a packet sniffer to find out what you''re sending back and forth.

Penguis << I reccomend Beejs guide - all you need
smart_idiot << EEK! I have been lookin for the http request header for some time now! Copy/pased ;P

This might interest you.

As _buu_ pointed out I made a mistake. I was thinking two newlines made two blank lines, but it only makes one.

change the outcome (besides making max_message_size smaller which makes the less characters come out in the end

Method Not Implemented

 to / not supported.

Invalid method in request 

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any ideas on what is causing this madness?

[edited by - penguins on February 8, 2004 5:59:54 PM]