QStat version 2.5c
** UPDATED for 2.5c **
Nov 11, 2002
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Unreal Tournament 2003 support [-ut2s]
Including support for the current UT2003 patch
Ghost Recon support [-grs]
Bob Marriott provided the patch for this. I integrated with
very few changes. See info/GhostRecon.txt for more detail.
Thanks Bob! Supports versions 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and expansions
-noportoffset to disable adding the port offset to query packets
There's a "noportoffset" query argument to set this per-server.
-showgameport to output the game port instead of the query port
With -showgameport, qstat will report the game port instead of
the query port in $ARG, $PORT, and $HOSTNAME. If the query port
is different from game port, the query port will be set in the
"_queryport" server rule.
There's a "showgameport" query argument to set this per-server.
New template variables
----------------------
$TOTALMAXPLAYERS Sum of max players from all servers
$PLAYERSTATID UT2003 global player stat id (not yet
supported by Epic).
$UNREALTOURNAMENT2003
$GHOSTRECON
$PLAYERLEVEL Character level for NWN
$IF:DEATHS True if $DEATHS > 0
$TOTALUTILIZATION How full the servers are (0 to 100 percent)
Fixes
-----
Fixed packet parsing for Battlefield 1942. Use -gps to query BF1942
servers. The query port is usually 23000.
Fix broadcast queries for Tribes 2, Quake 3, UT2003 (hopefully)
Fix all output modes to support team-numbers, team-names, and no-team styles
Fix xml output; accidentally disabled <ping> and <retries>
Fix player info for NWN and other GPS games
Fix sv_password rule on Half-Life servers
Removed some debug output
Thanks
------
A big round of applause for Bob Marriott, author of the Ghost Recon
support. He reverse engineered the GR status protocol and maintained
the patch through several protocol revisions. And he wrote
documentation!
Thanks to Ludwig Nussel and Alex Burger of XQF for testing, suggestions,
and some timely stubborness :-)
Thanks for testing and suggestions: Kingsley Foreman, Pierre Smolarek,
Simon Garner and Paul Witt.
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.5b **
August 8, 2002
Whoops, I broke XQF. When using QStat raw mode, XQF and other programs
rely on the number of fields returned staying fixed. I added a game/mod
field to most raw output which breaks these programs.
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Extended -raw with a -raw,game variation that adds the game/mod name to
the end of the raw server output. Otherwise, the game/mod info
is not output in raw mode.
Thanks to Ludwig Nussel for not biting my head off (too much).
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.5a **
August 6, 2002
Final version of QStat 2.5a. Please send feedback and bug reports
to qstat-users@yahoogroups.com or to steve@qstat.org
This version of QStat is being distributed under the Artistic License.
The terms of the license can be found in LICENSE.txt in the QStat package.
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Config file support to define new game types
This is a major new feature. This will allow users to define
new game types and master servers, including setting custom
request packets. I expect that support for most new game types
will be accomplished via config files.
The default config file is "qstat.cfg". More game types from
QStat users can be found in "contrib.cfg".
Added support for "status port offset" to config file; UNS (unreal) has
this set to 1. If you extend UNS, the new server type will have
the same status port offset.
Added a GNUmakefile to support gmake
Updated COMPILE.txt with new instructions
Improve Half-Life server status; extracts mod information and
secure status
Add support for server rules template (-Tr file)
See qstatdoc.html for instructions.
Support broadcast queries for Tribes and Tribes 2
Star Trek: Elite Force server and master (-efs and -efm)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein server and master (-rws and -rwm)
Debug flag (-d) (uses an improved packet output format)
Support color player names in Soldier of Fortune
Default Config File (qstat.cfg)
-------------------------------
Command and Conquer: Renegade server (-crs)
Soldier of Fortune 2 (-sof2s)
Soldier of Fortune 2 Master (-sof2m)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault server (-mas)
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault server, Quake 3 protocol (-maqs)
Half-Life "infostring" protocol (-hlqs)
This is a Quake 2 style protocol
Fixes
-----
Fixed raw output to include the game or mod name as the last item
Fix template to allow numbers, '.' and ' ' in rule names
Refers to $(RULE:someserverrule) Allowing space ' ' may
break existing templates if they use syntax like
$RULE:maxbullets Max Bullets
This can be fixed by change it to $(RULE:maxbullets)
This change was made because SOF2 allows spaces in server rule
names.
Fix Unreal and Gamespy based servers to support backslashes '\' in
player names (only partially worked before)
Support Half-Life split packets; this happens to the rules info from
some Half-Life servers (usually AdminMod and DOD).
XML output; added <?xml ...> element, UTF-8 output option (-utf8)
XML; added <gametype>
Fix crash on broadcast queries
Avoid duplicates in the rule list
Fixed -srcip to put address in the right byte-order
Work-around for crash on Windows when bind() returns temporary error
Finish output when -timeout expires
Changed Q3 based servers to use a two-packet status query; I think
this gets more accurate mod information.
More accurate player count on Quake based servers
Compiles on OSX/Darwin
Fix one byte overrun on QuakeWorld packet
New template variables
----------------------
$TYPEPREFIX The server's game type prefix
$RULENAMESPACES Allow spaces in rule names
$RULETEMPLATE Invoke the server rule template
$RULENAME The rule name
$RULEVALUE The rule value
$(IF:RULENAME(name)) True if rule name equals "name"
$(IF:RULEVALUE(value)) True if rule value equals "value"
(see qstat.cfg for gametype variables)
Thanks
------
Many thanks to all the beta testers for bug reports and feature
suggestions. There are many to list, but the following provided
significant help:
Kingsley Foreman, Mike Davis, Ludwig Nussel, Pierre Smolarek,
aphax, and Simon Garner. and I'm sure I forgot someone
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.4e **
Oct 1, 2001
This release is basically to fix Tribes 2 support. That was all my
fault, Dynamix/Sierra did nothing wrong. Since I was going through
the trouble of a full release, I decided to toss in Descent 3 support.
Don't be impressed, a patch for D3 was sitting in my inbox. :-)
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Descent 3 support
-htmlmode (same as $HTML, but for -raw mode)
Fixes
-----
Fixed Tribes 2 queries
Fixed $SHIRTCOLOR when no color names are used
Thanks
------
Many thanks to Matthew Mueller for a patch to support Descent 3.
Matthew thanks Brian Hayes, Kevin Bentley, and tcpdump.
Thanks to Thomas Hager for putting me on the right track for the
Tribe 2 bug.
Sorry, the real -noconsole support did not make it into this release.
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.4d **
August 8, 2001
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Half-Life master filters
Names for Quake 3 game types
XML output mode
Broadcast support for Gamespy style protocols
Append output file option [-af]
Option to print carets in Q3 player names [-carets]
OS/2 Warp EMX compiler port
OpenBSD support
Options to specify source ports [-srcport] and source IP address [-srcip]
for packets sent by qstat. Handy for getting through firewalls.
See docs for details.
Fixes
-----
Tribes 2 teamdamage flag
Fixed writing beyond array bounds when reading templates on Windows.
(maybe this will fix the garbage characters some people see)
Fixed player sorting for games with teams (tribes 1 and 2).
Removed win32/qstat.exe from the tar.gz
Trying the MS C 6.0 compiler again (win32/qstat.exe)
Fixed running QStat from PHP; would crash or give no data
New template variables
----------------------
$CLEARNEWLINES Convert newlines to spaces in all variable output.
Handy for Tribes 2 servers with long descriptions.
$GAMETYPE Quake 3 only - the name of the game type
Thanks
------
Most of this release was contributed by QStat users:
XML output Simon Garner
Half-Life master filters Ludwig Nussel
OS/2 Warp EMX Mikulas Patocka
OpenBSD subset
A three rail gun salut to ya!
And thanks to Tahi 'Linus' Walcher for helping find the PHP bug.
strace is a thing of the gods.
I was hoping to fix one other problem for Windows users. QStat is a
command-line style program, so Windows always gives it a console
window. This is annoying if you're running QStat from a web-page or a
GUI server browser. I can fix this, but it's not that easy. In the
mean time, I've added a -noconsole option that will delete the console
as soon as qstat starts. The effect is that a console window will
flash on the screen briefly. QStat still runs, you just won't see any
output on screen. Anyway, I'll craft a real implementation of
-noconsole in the next release.
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.4c **
Apr 19, 2001
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Tribes 2 player type and tribe tag information
Changed Quake 3 default version to "48" (1.27g)
New Tribes 2 master filters. (see documentation)
Bug Fixes
---------
Fixed win32/qstat.exe binary; re-compiled using old compiler
Convert newlines into spaces when printing Tribes 2 server info
in raw mode.
Fixed problems with the 22337 build of Tribes 2.
Tribes 2 raw output is now the same format as most other servers.
Note that this reverses the order of current and max players
from what they were in 2.4b. And adds ping and # retries values.
New template variables
----------------------
$IF:ISBOT
$IF:ISALIAS
$IF:TRIBETAG
$TRIBETAG
Notes
-----
[ Blarg, I hate it when I blow a release. Many people had
problems with the win32/qstat.exe in 2.4b release. I had
compiled this with a new compiler version on a new Win2k
install. It worked fine for me, but apparently the new
compiler has compatibility problems. So, I've gone back
to the old compiler and old NT 4.0 install.
Several people also reported problems using 2.4b with the
new 22337 build of Tribes 2.
Sorry about the problems. This release should fix things
up. ]
The new Tribes 2 player info is available in raw mode (see docs) and
templates. But it is not displayed in the interactive output. I've
updated the sample Tribes 2 templates to display the new player info.
Finally, there seem to be a number of bugs with the Tribes 2 master
servers. One of the bugs is noted in the documentation. Dynamix is
aware of the problems and working to fix them.
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.4b **
Apr 13, 2001
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Support for Tribes 2 [-t2s] (builds numbered 22075 or higher)
Support for Tribes 2 master [-t2m]
Support for Quake 3 and Tribes 2 colorized player names [-htmlnames]
Sample HTML templates for Tribes 2 [template/tribes2*]
New QStat web site! http://www.qstat.org
New mailing lists for QStat users and announcements! (see web site)
New template variables
----------------------
$ISMASTER
$TRIBES2
$TRIBES2MASTER
$HTMLPLAYERNAME
Bug Fixes
---------
Fix 'game' value for some Quake 2 based servers
Fixed some cases where QStat will hang
Fixed some picky compiler warnings
Notes
-----
The Tribes 2 master server has a number of fancy filtering options.
Check the "Tribes 2 Master" section in the documentation for details.
Many thanks to Brad Heinz and Dynamix for their help with Tribes 2.
Thanks to the QStat beta testers:
Dr. Chmod, Marauder, Leif Sawyer, Luca Spada, Simon Garner,
and Jose Ivey
Steve, steve@qstat.org
** UPDATED for 2.4a **
Oct 5, 2000
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Support for Gamespy master [-gsm]
Support for "Gamespy style" protocol queries (adds 12+ games) [-gsm and -gps]
More server sort options [-sort]
Player sort options [-sort]
Option to set the output file [-of]
Quake 3 master query argument; can query by protocol version
Other Improvements
------------------
Way way way faster
Fixed Q3 master server queries
Fixed queries of SoF 1.05 servers
Servers now queried in the order provided to QStat (was reverse order)
Fixed ^ display in Q3 player names
Partial fix for '\' in player names
Players now displayed in the order the server reports them (was reverse order)
Rules now displayed in the order the server reports them (was reverse order)
Server variables can be referenced inside player templates
Fixed raw display of SoF servers
Improved HalfLife queries; fetches sv_type and sv_os server rules
Much much much faster
New template variables
----------------------
$IF:GAMESPYMASTER
$IF:GAMESPYPROTOCOL
Notes
-----
I'm probably treading on some toes with the Gamespy master support.
Someone figured out that the Gamespy server lists are not protected,
and sent me the protocol. Once I had that, supporting the master was
trivial. See the documentation for details on using a gamespy master.
Many games are using the Unreal style server status protocol. Maybe
because there are lots of Unreal engine games. Or maybe because
developers want Gamespy support, so they use a protocol that Gamespy
already supports. There are too many of these games to add individual
game types and command-line options. So I've lumped them together as
"Gamespy Protocol" servers using the game type "GPS". They all seem
to have a server rule called "gamename" set to the name of the game
(eg. "roguespear", "turok2").
I made a pile of performance improvements to QStat. Start-up time for
large server lists is very fast. Queries on large servers lists is
also much faster. And queries require much less CPU time. If you
have -maxsim set high to reduce query times, you might see more
server timeouts now. QStat can spew out packets so fast, you'll see
more packet loss and hence more timeouts.
Thanks
------
Many thanks to the beta testers and contributors. They provided
bug fixes, bug reports, suggestions, ideas, protocol traces, and
kind words. I'll spare them the spam by just mentioning real names:
Alex Burger, Conan Ford, Vitaliy Fuks, Mike Dowell, Nico de Vries,
and Jose Ivey
Steve
** UPDATED for 2.3g **
Feb 3, 2000
BETA is done! The 2.3 release is stable enough now to drop the
beta qualifier.
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Added options to support Soldier of Fortune [-sfs]
New template variables
----------------------
$IF:SOLDIEROFFORTUNE
There are command-line options to control the following, but it's
handy to have control within the templates as well.
$COLORNUMBERS Set the format of $SHIRTCOLOR and $PANTSCOLOR
$COLORNAMES
$COLORRGB
$TIMESECONDS Set the format of $CONNECTTIME
$TIMECLOCK
$TIMESTOPWATCH
Summary of Fixes
----------------
Fix crashes in Unreal -raw player output (duh).
Fix hangs doing Unreal server queries.
Fix $GAME for Quake 3 servers
Fix Kingpin servers reported as Q2 servers
Notes
-----
The SOF server does not return map information, so you'll just get a
'?' or blank for an SOF map. The map info is returned by the master
server. But QStat does not yet support the SOF master server. I
traced the SOF master protocol, but it's totally different from any
other master server. Before I invest the time into writing a
parser for the SOF master packets, I'm going to wait to see if it
changes before the final retail release.
Notes on Future Releases
------------------------
Now that the 2.3 release train is winding down, what's up for
QStat 2.4? I don't know, but there's a few frequently requested
features:
- More sort options; server and player
- More games; Delta Force, Descent III
- Fetch server lists from web pages
- Better templates; variables and full expression evaluation
- Better performance on large server lists
- Examples and samples
I don't know which features will be available when, so don't ask.
There may be one or two more 2.3 releases to fix critical bugs or
add a new game.
Getränk und ist fröhlich,
Steve
** UPDATED for 2.3f BETA **
Jan 11, 2000
Summary of Fixes
----------------
Added player ping and face to Unreal -raw output
Fix queries for version 405 Unreal servers
New template variable
---------------------
For the player template:
$FACE The texture used on a player's face.
This was added to Unreal a while back, but I didn't notice.
Notes
-----
The fine blokes at Unreal decided to fiddle with the Unreal query
protocol. When asked why PingTool and QStat did not work with the
new servers, they responded that we must not be following the new
GameSpy spec. Ha! As if they publish this information or care to
keep other server browser authors informed. Sheesh.
Steve
** UPDATED for 2.3e BETA **
Jan 7, 2000
Summary of Fixes
----------------
Quake III Arena master queries
Half-Life master queries
$(IF:GAME) was true when $GAME was blank (Tribes)
Improved Q3A player name translation
Fixed raw mode output for Unreal (minor incompatible change)
Updated docs for raw mode output
Add one to Unreal/UT port to get query port (incompatible change)
$GAME and "-sort g" now work for Unreal/UT
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Options added for Kingpin and Heretic II game servers. These
two games were previously supported with the -q2s option.
New options: -kps and -hrs
New template conditions: $(IF:KINGPIN) and $(IF:HERETIC2)
Notes
-----
Numerous people sent me the fix for the Q3A master query problem. I
think the first was Ted Milker, but thanks to all for your suggestions
and patience.
The Half-Life master support wasn't using the latest protocol, so
needed an upgrade. Now you can get the full 2100+ server list from
the master. BTW, there are more HL servers than Q3A servers.
Unreal support was changed to automatically add one to the port number
to find the query port. This is probably why people thought QStat
didn't support UT. For those that figure it out already, you'll have
to remove your own +1 hacks to use this release.
I apologize for the long delay between releases. Work, holidays, and
health problems cut my free time to less than zero.
Best wishes for the new millennium,
Steve
** UPDATED for 2.3d BETA **
May 12, 1999
More bug reports and suggestions prompted this release.
Quake 3 master
--------------
The id Q3 master server isn't working very well. The protocol is lame
and its network is way over subscribed. I've enhanced QStat to deal
with the changes, but I actually think they (id) have made matters worse
rather than better. QStat can now, sometimes, get all the servers
from the master, but it often can't get 30-60% of the servers. This
is not QStat problem, but id's. I've sent them a detailed analysis
of the problems and made some suggestions.
Summary of Fixes
----------------
Improve reliability of Q3 master server queries
Support Tribes servers with 3+ teams
Strip escape sequences from Q3 player names; use -hpn if you want the
complete content of player names.
Accurately calculate number of servers on a master (ignore duplicates).
Fixed $(ISFULL) to be false if the server is empty [duh]
New Features
------------
New option to control master server retry interval ("-mi") independent
of server retry interval.
Increase maximum -maxsim to 256 for Win32.
Added $(TYPESTRING) template var; shows server's type string (eg. q2s, hls)
Added $(NOWINT) template var; shows the current time in seconds since
00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970.
Notes
-----
Many many thanks to Nico de Vries (Nico.de.Vries@ucc.nl) of CLQ for
the many bugs reports, suggestions, etc. Thanks to stincey@nireland.com
for figuring out the Tribes 3+ teams bug.
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.3c BETA **
May 3, 1999
A slew of bug reports arrived over the weekend. I guess QStat users
are weekend warriors. Thanks to the four people that sent patches for
the Q3 master breakage. I won't say who's patch I used, but I
selected the most elegant.
id has said that the Q3 master protocol will be changing alot over
the next weeks. I'll try to track their progress, but no promises.
They also asked for suggestions on reducing packet size, so I sent
them my ideas (all quite clever <puff> <puff>).
Summary of Fixes
----------------
Q3 master server
Q3 server name
Tribes -raw mode [forgot to write it]
Removed leftover debug print
Switched snprintf() to sprintf() [much more portable]
Half-Life game rules [useful for TFC]
Fixed -progress output
Added player ping to Unreal player output
Fixed minor mistakes in docs
Notes
-----
Many thanks to:
"Dark Grue" <darkgrue@iname.com> of QStatList
Nico de Vries <Nico.de.Vries@ucc.nl> of CLQ
"Joe S." <jszabo@eden.rutgers.edu> of ... I forget what Joe does
Sven Grundmann <grundema@uni-duesseldorf.de>
for their bug reports, patches, and suggestions.
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.3b BETA **
April 29, 1999
New: Quake III and BFRIS support
Not many complaints about problems with 2.3a, looks like the
new code is working fine.
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Quake III: Arena (Q3Test)
Quake III master
BFRIS (www.aegistech.com)
Minor Changes
-------------
A couple people pointed out that the docs and the code did not
exactly agree on the server type strings. So, I've fixed the
code to match the docs. The following type strings were changed:
2.3a 2.3b
---- ----
QW --> QWS
Q2 --> Q2S
Notes
-----
Voluminous thanks to Dave "Zoid" Kirsch of id Software for supplying
diffs to support Quake III. Zoid says has used QStat "from time to time"
over the years. Makes me smile.
And a sweeping bow to Pete Ratzlaff of Harvard for the diff to support
Linux game BFRIS. See www.aegistech.com for info.
I gave the diffs the wary eye for fuggly programming, but both were
written nicely and applied without a hitch. I performed minimal
testing of the new code, please let me know if there are problems.
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.3a BETA **
April 19, 1999
Lots of changes and additions in this release, far more than I have
patience to test. Please try this release with your web page, stats
program, server browser, and what not. If you encounter any problems
_please_ send me email! Flames on my sloppy coding are acceptable.
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Complete Half-Life support (players and server rules)
Half-Life master server (option -hlm)
Tribes servers (option -tbs)
Tribes master server (option -tbm)
Shogo (option -sgs)
Hex player colors (option -hc)
Several new template variables
Created server types table to simplify code
Bug Fixes
---------
Servers without "hostname" rule appeared to TIMEOUT
One or two other boo-boos
Incompatible
------------
The option "-qw" has been removed. Please use "-qwm" instead.
New variables for output templates
----------------------------------
Generic variables
$(DEFAULTTYPE) Full name of the default server type (-default)
Server variables
$(ISEMPTY) True if the server has no players
$(ISFULL) True if the server is full of players
Player variables
$(PACKETLOSS) Players packets loss (Tribes only)
$(ISTEAM) True if this player represents a team (Tribes only)
$(TEAMNAME) Name of this player's team (Tribes only)
Notes
-----
Many thanks to the following for their assistance:
zarjazz@barrysworld.com Tribes
seb@club-internet.fr, carl@d-n-a.net Shogo
sean@msiconsulting.com Half-Life
Thanks to the many people who have sent suggestions for improvements.
I've incorporated some of them in this release, more will follow in
later releases.
This release was focused on supporting popular new games and making
it easier to add new games to the code. The backlog of new games
support is now empty. If there's a game you would like to see
supported, please send email. The Linux game BFRIS
(http://www.aegistech.com) is the only planned new game support.
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.2b **
Jan 15, 1999
D'oh! I need to do more testing. The -raw mode did not work at
all for Half-Life. Thanks to Dark Grue <darkgrue@iname.com> for
bring that to my attention.
Bug Fixes
---------
Fix Half-Life support with -raw mode
Shush compiler warning on Linux
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.2a **
Jan 14, 1999
Not too much in this release, but I've been getting an email a day
asking about Half-Life support. The Half-Life status packets are
totally different from Quake II, so I've only completed the general
info so far. Players and rules from Half-Life will be available in the
next release. I also threw in flags to support Sin. Sin was
supported in previous releases by pretending it was a Q2 server, but
now it has its own flags.
Future releases of QStat will support even more games (Shogo, Blood 2,
Heretic 2, etc).
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Sin support (option -sns)
Half-Life (partial) support (option -hls)
Bug Fixes
---------
Divide-by-zero bug with sorting
Memory allocation bug using -H (hostname lookup)
New variables for output templates
----------------------------------
Server template variables
$SIN True if the server is running Sin
$HALFLIFE True if the server is running Half-Life
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.1a **
Oct 4, 1998
This release supercedes previous 2.1 releases (2.1z BETA and 2.1y BETA)
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Unreal 2.15+ support (option -uns)
Broadcast queries (prefix address with '+')
Save lists from master servers (option -qw,outfile and -q2m,outfile)
Bug Fixes
---------
Fixed host cache on Intel platforms
Report Host Not Found as a server error (so it appears in templates
and raw output)
New variables for output templates
----------------------------------
Server template variables
$HOSTNOTFOUND True if the host name lookup failed
Player template variables
$MESH Player mesh (model) name (Unreal only)
Notes
-----
QStat will support the public Unreal master server once it's
done. The current Unreal master server is private to GameSpy
(snarl).
The broadcast queries is an experimental feature. I've only
tested it with Quake II. Other games will be tested and
supported in later releases. For example, querying the local net for
Q2 servers on the default port:
qstat -q2s +255.255.255.255
The '+' makes QStat broadcast to the given address. The default
broadcast address for all nets is 255.255.255.255. You can
also use a network specific broadcast (eg. 199.2.18.255). On
Unixes, 'ifconfig -a' will display the broadcast address for
all attached networks.
The ",outfile" option for master servers is handy for dealing with
unreliable master server (such as the id Q2 master). Run qstat
once to save the servers lists to files, and a second time to
query the servers:
qstat -q2m,outfile satan.idsoftware.com,idq2.lst
qstat -f idq2.lst
The first command saves the server list from the id Q2 master into
"idq2.lst". If the master isn't working, then the file retains
its previous contents. The second command queries the servers in
that file.
I've also included the templates for an example Unreal server
list web page.
Thanks to my wonderful users for reporting bugs and making
suggestions. And a special thanks to the Unreal development team for
actually documenting their query protocol (unlike some other well known
first person shooter developers).
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.1y BETA **
Aug 22, 1998
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
HexenWorld support
Revived support for id's Q2 master
New variables for output templates
Faster host cache initialization
More efficient server query (Unix only)
Support for AIX 4.2 and HPUX 11.0
Bug Fixes
---------
Fixed bogus query failure on second server on same IP address.
Fixed to ignore QW and Q2 server packets that contain lots of error
messages. Also disabled printing of the "Odd packet" messages.
They can be enabled with the -errors option.
Fixed output templates on Windows
Non-feature
-----------
Unreal support. Unreal needs to get fixed before QStat can support it.
HexenWorld support
------------------
Use the -hws command line option, or the HWS server type key.
Revived support for id's Q2 master
----------------------------------
id's Quake II master server was broken for a long time. QStat
supported id's Q2 master, but the master only rarely returned anything
(and you had to wait up to 30 seconds for a response). When QuakeSpy
announced that id had fixed their Q2 master, I was surprised that QStat
did not work on the fixed master. Turns out the "fix" also changed the
query protocol slightly.
New variables for output templates
----------------------------------
General variables
$\ Inhibit output of the next newline.
Server template variables
$HEXENWORLD True if the server is HexenWorld (use with $IF)
$UNREAL True if the server is Unreal (use with $IF)
Player template variables
$DEATHS Number of deaths (Unreal only)
$TEAMNUM Team number (Unreal only)
un-Unreal support
-----------------
I implemented support for the original Unreal server status protocol.
However, the Unreal server worked so poorly as to be unusable. Unreal
is getting improved Internet support, but it's not ready yet. When
Unreal gets fixed, QStat will support the new protocol.
I've also included the templates I use for the status page of my
own Quake II servers.
Steve, steve@activesw.com
** UPDATED for 2.1z BETA **
Feb 28, 1998
Summary of New Features
-----------------------
Output templates (HTML generation)
Server sorting
Host name and IP address cache
Support for Quake II master
New Flags
---------
See the documentation (qstatdoc.html) for complete details.
-default server-type
Set the default server type which should be one of: QS, QW, QWM,
H2S, Q2, or Q2M.
-Hcache file
Host name cache file
-sort sort-key
Sort the servers by the sort-key
p sort by ping
g sort by game
-Tserver file
Server output template. Displayed once per server.
-Tplayer file
Player output template. Displayed once per player (if -P is used)
-Theader file
Header output template. Displayed once before any servers are output
-Ttrailer file
Trailer output template. Displayed once after all servers and players
are output.
-q2m Get servers from Quake II master server
Summary of Enhancements
-----------------------
Remove duplicate server addresses before query
Reduce memory usage when -R and/or -P are not specified
Work-around a memory leak in Solaris 2.5
Wait for results from all master servers before starting to query servers
VMS support
Release Notes
-------------
This is a major new release of QStat. There is over 1400 lines of new
code with all the benefits and drawbacks therein. I hope you like the
features, but I really hope it's not riddled with bugs. There might be
some portability issues since I only have access to Solaris, HP-UX, Irix,
and Windows NT. If you have a problem compiling, please send me a note.
No major new features are planned for 2.1 beyond what you see here.
However, I plan to make enhancements to the sorting and template code
before final release. Please tell me what is missing. Obvious
deficiencies include:
- No per-server output files (can't have a server list with a link
to a page with details about each server).
- Missing $ELSE ($IFNOT is a cheap replacement)
- Flexible $IF expressions would be nice
- The output template variable syntax is kinda lame: you use
$(IF:RULE(email)) to test for a rule and $(RULE:email) to output the value
- Can only sort on ping and game. Would like to add map, players, etc
- Can't sort the player lists
- Host cache administration might be nice (re-verify command)
- Host cache sharing. Use file locking to allow multiple qstats to
share the same host cache.
Presence on the list above does not guarantee implementation! Please
tell me what you want, even if it's listed above.
A host name cache can take a _long_ time to build the first time (30
minutes, minimum). I will try to keep starter cache files on the QStat
web site. The current cache file for servers in the QW masters
contains over 1000 entries.
I've included sample output templates for HTML. They are not the
best HTML, but they demonstrate some of the neat tricks you can do.
If you use the templates with '-R', then server rules like email
and web will be output as links next to the server. If you get
player status (-P), then a subtable is output with player info
formatted with the correct columns for the server type. A sample
command line to use the templates:
qstat -f myservers.txt -Ts template/server1.html -Th template/header1.html
-Tp template/player1.html -Tt template/trailer1.html > myservers.html
(The template files in qstat21z.zip have a ".htm" extension)
Finally, the id Quake II master has a bug (gasp!) that makes it _very_
slow to respond some times. QStat tries to work-around the bug by
increasing the retry interval by 20 times while waiting for a response
from a Quake II master. The retry interval is restored once all the
masters have been queried.
Thank you for your support.
** UPDATED for 2.0b **
Dec 29, 1997
- Fix map name for Quake II 3.07-09
The rule key changed from "map" to "mapname". If both are present,
then "mapname" takes precedence.
- Q2: Noticed some servers are running custom games. The rule keys for
games are confusing:
"gamename" Always seems to be set to "baseq2", unless a
custom game is being run, in which case "gamename"
is not set at all.
"gamedir" Probably the same as "*gamedir" in QW.
"game" Always the same as "gamedir" in the servers I
stat'd. Maybe this can be used to indicate the
name as well as the version of the game being
run.
For now, QStat displays the value of the "game" key in the non-raw
output of Q2 servers.
- Print file name and line number information with errors when reading
files.
- new option: -progress display progress meter
Thanks maynard@ultra.net
Leave for the Holidays and the id boys change the protocol. A minor
change, but a few QStat users noticed right away. The change does
not affect people using -raw.
** UPDATED for 2.0a **
Dec 9, 1997
- Support for Quake II servers, see documentation for usage.
- Minor fix to connect time formatting.
I don't have Quake II, but the status protocol is very similar to
QuakeWorld, so I was able to figure it out by poking existing Quake II
servers on the net. Id has stated that the network protocol will
get an upgrade soon after the in-store release. As always, QStat
will track these changes as they become available.
** UPDATED for 1.6 **
Nov 30, 1997
Changes since beta5. Minor enhancements and a few fixes.
- Removed all the annoying copyright restrictions.
- Added option -ne : no empty servers
Thanks secabeen@fnord.rh.uchicago.edu
- Added option -raw-arg : special for QStatList (see qstat docs)
Thanks darkgrue@iname.com
- Added option -timeout : total time in seconds before giving up
Can prevent overlapping runs when cron runs qstat every five
minutes.
- Added gamedir to QW server output (not -raw)
- Fixed bug getting long server lists from QuakeWorld masters. Can now
get lists in excess of 16,000 servers. How long til that limit is
exceeded?
- Fixed bug using -H with -qw
- Fixed use of select() so systems with large file descriptor limits
can query more than 64 servers at a time.
- Overhauled the web page, but it is still gif-less.
QStat 1.6 has been in alpha / beta just short of a year (1.6 alpha
was released Dec 20, 1996). It has been a good year. Many thanks
to those who sent suggestions, kind words, and bug reports. And
appologies to those who have not seen their request implemented,
or who did not even receive a reply.
"Mmmgufm gumerfm rerfgmmf."
"That's right, Kenny, Steve is a busy guy and doesn't care about
your stupid problems."
"Merfgl! gumerfm rerfgmmf!"
"Dammit, Kenny, turn down the computer, I can't hear you over the
splattering bodies."
"Gumerfm rerfgmmf."
"Oh. Kenny says, Steve does care about your problems, but not the
stupid ones."
[ A large core dump falls on Kenny, killing him. ]
"Steve killed Kenny! You bastard!"
Quake II gives me an excuse to crank up the major version dial.
QStat 2.0 will feature support for Quake II servers.
** UPDATED for 1.6 beta5 **
Oct 5, 1997
Kitchen sink release to add some of the most requested features.
- Extended file format. The file used with the -f option can include
server type information to distinguish between Hexen II, Quake, and
QuakeWorld servers. You can put all your servers into one file and
query them all with one qstat invocation.
- Fix bug that caused a QuakeWorld master server query to never timeout.
- New option -h2s for specifying a single Hexen II server to query.
- New option -maxsimultaneous limits the number of simultaneous server
queries. Previously configurable by modifying the MAXFD #define in
qstat.h.
- Updated docs [FINALLY!]
- Compiles on HP-UX 10.20
- Changed packaging: files are in a directory named for the version
of qstat, and use gzip instead of compress on unix
- Removed pre-QuakeWorld 1.5 support. The -qw1.5 option is obsolete
and no longer needed. As are the -qwuserinfo and -qwseeninfo options.
- Smarter about when to include server type prefix in formatted output
Unless I hear cries for more features, this will be the last beta
before the final release of qstat 1.6. Now that the docs are up to
date, I've run out of excuses for doing the release.
** UPDATED for 1.6 beta4 **
Sept 2, 1997
Qstat has gone through some minor revs of beta3 and the arrival of
Hexen II sparked the need for another release. Summary of fixes and
changes:
- Support for Hexen II servers. Use the -hexen2 mode to query Hexen II
servers:
qstat -hexen2 -R -P 165.166.143.15 208.131.24.189
You cannot mix queries of Quake and Hexen II servers. This limitation
will be fixed in the final 1.6 release. However you can mix QW and
Hexen II queries in one qstat command.
[Thanks to Michael Long, mlong@infoave.net, for getting me the protocol
magic for Hexen II.]
- In the formatted display output (as opposed to -raw), a Hexen II server
is indicated with a H2S prefix. This will only be seen if qstat is
using different quake protocols at the same time (eg. query a Hexen II
and QW server in the same command).
- Various fixes to deal with bogus packets from QW servers. The lastest
one is caused when the QW server info packet is truncated. It appears
that there is a fixed buffer of 1600 bytes in the QW server for building
server info responses. The QW server programmers may want to consider
increasing this value. On Ethernet, two packets must be used to send
1600 bytes (Ethernet frame size 1518, subtract ~50 for header, leaving
~1468 for data). Might as well set the buffer size to ~3000 bytes so
two full packets can be used.
- There's some wierd problem on Linux which causes bind() to occasionally
fail with EADDRINUSE. Fixed the code to consider this a transient
error and retry the address at a later time. If you saw messages like:
bind: Address already in use
send: Invalid argument
from qstat, then this fixes that.
No time table for the final 1.6 release. Other than updating the docs,
I don't plan any significant new features.
** The docs have not yet been updated. This is all you get for now. **
** UPDATED for 1.6 beta3 **
April 3, 1997
D'oh! Should never do releases just after midnight. Beta2 had an
old win32 executable. Also forgot to check for NULL map name in
the -raw display code. Sorry!
** UPDATED for 1.6 beta2 **
April 2, 1997
Features in 1.6 beta2 beyond beta1
Fix crash on negative player colors
New option -qw1.5
Use the QuakeWorld 1.5 protocol. Affects the interaction
with a QW master (-qw). Fortunately, the rest of the protocol
hasn't changed. I imagine the user and seen info won't be
available from a QW 1.5 master. The user and seen flags will
remain until I have a better understanding of where QW is going.
Had to fix a bunch of crashes related to QW 1.5 servers. Some of them
don't have common keys like "map".
** UPDATED for 1.6 beta1 **
Feb 7, 1997
Features in 1.6 beta1 over the 1.6 alpha releases:
Changes to -qw option
Support for user names and user ids
Defaults values ("qstat") for user id and password. Most of
the QW masters have a qstat user with "qstat" as the password.
New option -qws
Fetch and display stats for a single QW server.
New option -qwuserinfo
Fetch and display user information from a QW master.
New option -qwseeninfo
Fetch and display user information from a QW master.
bug fix
Better handling of error packets from QW servers and masters.
No more "huh?"
Thanks to Kris Nosack (kn@byu.edu) for comments and bug reports.
** The following has been updated to reflect the changes and
** additions in 1.6 beta1.
The main feature of this release is support for QuakeWorld. A couple
minor bug fixes have also been made.
QuakeWorld support has been integrated into qstat. You can query
normal Quake servers and QuakeWorld servers at the same time. A new
prefix is used to distinguish between the different server types.
New options
-----------
All of these options can be used together in a single run of qstat.
To query QuakeWorld servers, use the -qw or -qws options. The first
will get the list of QW servers from a QW master and query all of
them for status information. The latter, -qws, will just query the
given QW server for status information. These options are the only
way to get QuakeWorld server stats.
Hosts added with -f or on the command-line are treated like normal
Quake servers.
-qw host:port:uid:password
host host name or IP address of QW Master Server
port port number (defaults to 27000 if blank)
uid valid QW user id or name on host
password password for user
To get the server list from a master server, qstat needs a valid login
on the master. A default login and password can be used if the uid and
password are not given. The default is "qstat" for both values. All
the known masters should have a "qstat" user with the same password.
-qws host:port
host host name or IP address of QW server
port post number (defaults to 27500 if blank)
If you don't use -qw or -qws, qstat will behave identically to qstat 1.5.
I use the following command to query QW servers:
qstat -qw 204.50.178.66
To get QuakeWorld user information, use the -qwuserinfo and -qwseeninfo
options. A QW login is not required to get user information.
-qwuserinfo host:port user-list
host host name or IP address of QW Master Server
port port number (defaults to 27000 if blank)
user-list list of QW users (ids or names)
The display for a user will include everything in their record. The
color name option (-ncn) is applied to 'topcolor' and 'bottomcolor'.
The user-list must be _one_ command line argument; use double-quotes
to enclose multiple users if they're separated with spaces. You can
also use back-slashes to separate users.
-qwseeninfo host:port user-list
host host name or IP address of QW Master Server
port port number (defaults to 27000 if blank)
user-list list of QW users (ids or names)
The last seen information comes directly from the master, qstat does
not perform any additional formatting. The user-list should be _one_
command line argument; use double-quotes to enclose multiple users if
they're separated with spaces. You can also use back-slashes to
separate users.
To get user information for me and qstat and find out who was last
slagging me:
qstat -qwuserinfo 204.50.178.66 "Act-Steve qstat" -qwseeninfo 204.50.178.66 Act-Steve
Display format
--------------
The QW servers return different information than the normal servers,
so I had to extend the output style. The first field of a server
status line is the server type:
QS normal Quake server
QW QW server
QWM QW master server
QWU QW user information
QWE QW last seen information
The for-human-comsumption output is pretty self-evident, but the raw
output needs some explanation. The output for normal Quake servers
has not changed.
QWM server status fields
server address, number of QW servers
[the uid and password are removed before display, no rules or
player info is output]
QW server status
server address, server name, map name, max players,
current players, avg response time, number of retries
[If -R is specified, a line of server rules is output. The
format is the same as for normal servers: key1=value1,key2=value2]
[If -P is specified, one line is output for each player.]
player uid, player name, frags, connect time, shirt color,
pants color, ping, skin
QWU
key1, value1, key2, value2, ...
[The first seven keys will always be the same; name, userid,
skill, efficiency, rank, frags, deaths. But I would not count
on that as I'm a fickle programmer and may change my mind.]
QWE
seen-info
[qstat just displays the string returned by the master. The
user name is embedded in there, but you'll have to parse it
out.]
All the existing display options apply to QW servers.
Run qstat by hand to better understand the new output before trying to
incorporate it into your web page.
Errors
------
QStat has a variety of ways of reporting errors such as time outs
and server errors. If you see something between angle brackets,
<like this>, that's an error message directly from a server or
master.
Some day I'll document how errors are displayed in the raw format.
But for now I trust you web masters can figure it out
Final words
-----------
This version is very beta. If you would like qstat to work differently
let me know. And of course, if you have problems or questions, please
let me know.
Known bugs
----------
qstat often fails to get all the QW server lists if multiple QW masters
are specified. You'll see a TIMEOUT or "no response" from the QWM when
this happens. I have a fix in mind, but I'm tired and there's beer
waiting for me at home.
An error is not displayed if qstat times out getting user or last seen
information.
Steve Jankowski
steve@activesw.com
---
Version 1.5 adds player info, server rules, response times, and
performance improvements. A large number of flags were added to support
different output formatting options. Web masters should check out
the -raw option which displays all server info with your choice
of delimiter. Updated copyright to be more specific about allowable
use. Updated the web page with links to Quake protocol pages.
Version 1.4 includes a number of new features and bug fixes. There is
now support for Linux, flags to set retry timeout and interval, flags
to limit output to running or not full servers. A bug was fixed which
caused qstat to have a long delay the first time it was run on Windows
95/NT.
Version 1.3 fixes a bug introduced in 1.2 and adds a Windows 95/NT
executable. The bug caused DOWN servers to be reported multiple
times.
Version 1.2 fixes the bug with running out of file descriptors.
