Hello All!!
I'm back, from holiday, and A-Level Pure 2 revision, sorry if it seems like I'm never here
Anyway, on with the query:
For my game, players need to know whereabouts the master server is to connect to it and retrieve a list of game servers. I don't have any permanent server I can upload applications to, so I decided to nab some free CGI webspace, namely tripod(hey, it was only an experiment
), with which to set as my persistant 'meeting point'. On the server I wrote a couple of perl scripts to respond to server list queries from players, and to commands I give it, aswell as new servers registering themselves on the server. This used little bandwidth, didn't require much programming experience, and worked relatively effectively(apart from perl interpreters being a bit slow
).
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