But what is this MUD Server Status Protocol (MSSP) ? A simple introduction from the official site<\/a>:<\/p>\n MUD listings are often out dated and lack accurate information. Verifying that the one submitting a new MUD is a member of the MUD’s administration can be quite tedious as well. The MUD Server Status Protocol seeks to address these issues by providing a transparant protocol for MUD crawlers to gather detailed information about a MUD, including dynamic information like boot time and the current amount of online players. It also makes submitting a new mud entry very simple because it only requires a player or admin to fill in the hostname and port.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This way you can have your status and statistics\u00a0automatically update on sites like MUDStats.com<\/a><\/p>\n MSSP\u00a0is implemented as a Telnet option. It’s another way of saying that you would need a client and server that implemented it too. But we don’t want to hack the server code do we ?<\/p>\n Fortunately the protocol also has a plaintext version! And it’s really simple and straightforward. Right after a new connection to your server, if you receive a MSSP-REQUEST command, just respond with the appropriate text lines with the status information.<\/p>\n Assuming you have a LambdaMOO based database just create the command on and program it:<\/p>\n These are just the required fields. There are many<\/a> variables you should implement.<\/p>\n Yes, that’s just like it. So simple it can’t be true. You now have a MSSP aware MOO world. Why supporting MSSP ? But what is this MUD Server Status Protocol (MSSP) ? A simple introduction from the official site: MUD listings are often out dated and lack accurate information. Verifying that the one submitting a new MUD is… Continue Reading Let’s add that feature to my MOO<\/h2>\n
$login<\/code><\/p>\n\r\n@verb $login:MSSP-REQUEST this none this "rxd"\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n@program $login:MSSP-REQUEST\r\nif (caller != #0)\r\nreturn E_PERM;\r\nendif\r\nNAME = $network.MOO_name;\r\nPLAYERS = length(connected_players());\r\nUPTIME = $last_restart_time;\r\ntab = $string_utils.tab;\r\nnotify(player, "");\r\nnotify(player, "MSSP-REPLY-START");\r\n"Required";\r\nnotify(player, tostr("NAME", tab, NAME));\r\nnotify(player, tostr("PLAYERS", tab, PLAYERS));\r\nnotify(player, tostr("UPTIME", tab, UPTIME));\r\nnotify(player, "MSSP-REPLY-END");\r\n.\r\n<\/pre>\nConclusion<\/h2>\n
\nIf you want to see more variables on a real life server just telnet moosaico.com 7777<\/code> and issue the MSSP-REQUEST<\/code> command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"