[crossfire] new metaserver

[Andrew Fuchs]

Mark Wedel Wrote:
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      I was thinking about this metaserver some more, and had some various
     
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      1) Has someone agreed to run the metametaserver? What about the slave
     
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      metaservers? While all this looks nice, if you don't have people willing
     
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      to run it/take care of it, it is all pretty pointless. For the
     
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      metametaserver, I'm thinking more of the Tanner's, since they currently
     
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      hold the main crossfire home page, but of course, the metametaserver could
     
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      move someplace else (not as sure how many people have as stable and ip
     
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      address and network connection that they do).
     
     
As I discused on irc, I may be able to host one of the metaservers, pending 
the purchase of new hardware.

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      Just some thoughts. I'd probably still be good to rewrite the metaserver
     
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      logic, but IMO, having the servers talk to web servers is an extra 
     
     complication
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      - pretty much all metaservers that are out there (certainly netrek at a 
     
     minimum)
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      use their own protocol for the servers to update the metaserver.
     
     
http is simple imo
afaik the header can be thrown away, except for any error codes included in 
it.

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