packet DWORDS [solved]

[tA-Kane]

You should look more closely at the original specification. He asked for how to put the bytes in network byte order, not how to put them in the byte order battle.net expects.

I was simply pointing out that Battle.net's byte order is not network byte order, and thusly htonl() shouldn't be useful for Battle.net.

If his post isn't in regards to Battle.net, what's it doing in the Battle.net bot development forum?

I do agree that if all you want/need to do is put the bytes in network byte order, htonl() is what you should use, and not custom code.

[dxoigmn]

You should look more closely at the original specification. He asked for how to put the bytes in network byte order, not how to put them in the byte order battle.net expects.

I was simply pointing out that Battle.net's byte order is not network byte order, and thusly htonl() shouldn't be useful for Battle.net.

If his post isn't in regards to Battle.net, what's it doing in the Battle.net bot development forum?

I do agree that if all you want/need to do is put the bytes in network byte order, htonl() is what you should use, and not custom code.

When you first said using htonl() is a problem, you never mentioned Battle.net.