Opening network connections to clients

[Shan Hollen]

How do I go about opening a connection so I can communicate with a
player client?

I tried using "open_network_connection (player IP, player connection
port)," but I get an invalid arg, which the manual explains happens
because "the host does not exist, the port does not exist, the host
is not reachable or refused the connection."

Thanks.

-Shan

[Matthew Walker]

The client has to initiate the connection. They could be (and probably are) behind a
firewall. Nor is their client likely listening for a connection anyway.

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[Todd Sundsted]

Can you connect to the client from the command line using something
like telnet?

Todd

[Tim van Dijen]

MOO can communicate with a client through MOO Client Protocol (MCP)..
It uses out-of-band-commands.
You can read more about it at http://www.awns.com/mcp/ and a bit on
oob-commands in the Lambdamoo programmer's manual

Goblin