Launcher Protocol

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Overview

This is the Odamex Launcher protocol, which will help developers develop custom launchers in other programming languages This protocol uses UDP Datagram sockets

Types used

These are the types used in this specification

Type name Range Size
Signed Integers
char -128 to 127 8-bit
short -32768 to 32767 16-bit
int -2147483648 to 2147483647 32-bit
Unsigned integers
byte 0 to 255 8-bit
word 0 to 65535 16-bit
long 0 to 4294967295 32-bit
Strings
String ASCIIZ null terminated

Keywords: -> = Sent to

* = Array of information

X = Any value

Specifications

Master server list request

Type Data Description
Launcher -> Master
int 777123 Request packet
Master -> Launcher
int 777123 Response
short X Server count
byte X *IP Address 1
byte X *IP Address 2
byte X *IP Address 3
byte X *IP Address 4
short X *Server Port