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Hello. I was wondering if i would be allowed to make a bot that would whisper me in game?(Just for educational purposes). I tried to get to the loginscreen before asking you but i failed. I send the "connect" packet(i believe it was just the string "0u") and then the auth packet with my name and password... So far so good but when it comes to logging in i get stuck.

It seems like the server gives you a packet with a random(?) letter in the end of it. Something like this: or in hex where the captial L is the random letter.(Note: this was done trying to connect to a homemade server, just dealing with auth but also with a homemade client to the normal server)

I think that this causes problems as neither the server nor the client sends any more data after that point.

Do you have any idea of how i can get a hold of this letter/character?


/Oscar

Creating bots is allowed as long as they are not active while you are AFK. Bots which do run while you are AFK can be run when you have the permission of the server administrators. The most important condition for getting permission for an unattended bot is that it doesn't level on its own.

Unfortunately I can't help you with your technical problem because I am not familiar with the eA netcode. But how about looking at the client sourcecode to find out how it does it? Might be more informative than just a network dump.

Crush wrote:Creating bots is allowed as long as they are not active while you are AFK. Bots which do run while you are AFK can be run when you have the permission of the server administrators. The most important condition for getting permission for an unattended bot is that it doesn't level on its own.

Unfortunately I can't help you with your technical problem because I am not familiar with the eA netcode. But how about looking at the client sourcecode to find out how it does it? Might be more informative than just a network dump.

Thanks for your reply & information Crush! Im afraid im not very good at looking into someone elses code, especially not this (imo) complicated code. I will however try again.

Thanks!:)

Y U NO FORUM SEARCH?
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... whisperbot

yourmistakes wrote:Y U NO FORUM SEARCH?
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... whisperbot

Sorry hehe, and thanks i will look into it! )

Hi,

New C++ dev are always welcome, if I may

Best regards.

khuil for details on the protocol look at the netcode in the Mana client... the best documentation is there.

Personally, I think the network layer of the tmwAthena source code is clearer (it was written by people who knew what they were doing, unlike much of eAthena) - on my list of things to do is separate out from ladmin a library, which could also be used for authorized AI scripts.
The only confusing thing about the network code is the one time that bytes are sent without a header... I haven't investigated it too closely, but I'm hoping the client interprets it as the tail of another packet, in which case it is merely a server bug...

good luck on that