INFO: MSSP (Mud Server Status Protocol)
Igor
creation of a protocol for Muds to automatically report their info to
mud crawlers. Since then a lot has happened. I set up an official
protocol specification and created a snippet that adds basic telnet
handling for MCCP, MSSP, NAWS, and TTYPE. I also added MSSP support to
TinTin++ so it can be used to debug server side MSSP support. So far
four Muds (and one codebase) have implemented the protocol, the
MudBytes crawler has added support for it and plans to integrate it
into their mud directory, and both TMC and TMS have shown interest in
adopting the protocol though they'll probably want to see it kick off
first.
For a quick look at what MSSP entails see my <a href="http://
tintin.sourceforge.net/mssp/mudlist.html">mud crawler's</a> output.
Feedback and comments are welcome, keep in mind that the protocol only
defines a brief set of official variables, Mud listings can maintain a
list of additional variables they support. If you implement MSSP and
want to be added to the crawler give me a yell.
Links:
<a href="http://tintin.sourceforge.net/mssp"><b>MSSP Protocol
defintion</b></a>
Client for debugging:
<a href="http://tintin.sourceforge.net">TinTin++</a> (Requires using
'#config {debug telnet} on' to display MSSP output from a MUD server.)
Codebases supporing MSSP:
<a href="http://www.ackmud.net">AckFUSS</a> (As of version 4.4.0.)
MUD Crawlers supporing MSSP:
<a href="http://www.kiasyn.com/mssp">MudByte's MUD crawler</a>
<a href="http://tintin.sourceforge.net/mssp/mudlist.html">TinTin++ MUD
crawler</a>
Discussion forum for MSSP (on MydBytes)
<a href="http://www.mudbytes.net/index.php?a=forum&f=39">MSSP
Discussion Forum</a>
Server supporting MSSP:
azereth.game-host.org:6400
cruentus.genesismuds.com:7070
home.gotr00t.us:3000
slackhalla.org:4321
MSSP Snippets:
<a href="http://www.mudbytes.net/index.php?
a=files&s=viewfile&fid=2608">MUD Telopt Handler</a> - Handles MCCP,
MSSP, NAWS, and TTYPE.