Critque Me Please

[Ryan Marcus]

I am a intermediate/advance REALbasic (similar to Visual Basic, but cross-platform) with a beginning knowledge of TCP/IP.

I got into Starcraft about 4 years ago, and have been playing avidly since (Blizzard injects crack though the mouse, or something...)

I worked for a while with iago on JavaOp, and decided to take a crack at it myself (although I will still be writing plugins for JavaOp).

I downloaded a few examples, converted them from VB to RB, and took a look. I quickly figured out it was going to be harder then it looks, and that I needed 2 connections, BNET and BNLS, not just one.

So I checked out BnetDocs (GJ Arga) and wrote a basic BNLS socket. I am sure there is a better way to do what I am doing, so please, tell me.

DataAvailable Event:

Code Select Expand


ParseData(me.ReadAll)
// me refers to the socket
// ReadAll is the equivalent of GetData(Var, String).


ParseData Method, Parameters data as string:

Code Select Expand


  Select Case Asc(Mid(Data, 3, 1))
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CDKEY")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("LOGONCHALLENGE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("LOGONPROOF")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CREATEACCOUNT")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CHANGECHALLENGE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CHANGEPROOF")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("UPGRADECHALLENGE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("UPGRADEPROOF")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("VERSIONCHECK")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CONFIRMLOGON")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("HASHDATA")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CDKEY_EX")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("CHOOSENLSREVISION")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("AUTHORIZE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("AUTHORIZEPROOF")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("REQUESTVERSIONBYTE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("VERIFYSERVER")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("RESERVESERVERLOTS")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("SERVERLOGONCHALLENGE")
  case GetPacketIDBNLS("SERVERLOGONPROOF")
  end Select

// GetPacketIDBNLS returns the correct values.



I am also working on a packet builder, but I just wanted to get that part done. Are there better ways? Am I just completely wrong?



Thanks in advance, Ryan Marcus.

[hismajesty]

Arga didn't do anything with BnetDocs.

[l2k-Shadow]

Just use a locally hashed connection and eliminate the use of BNLS and another socket all together.

[Yegg]

l2k-shadow. How can you be certain he knows enough about using the Battle.net binary files?

[l2k-Shadow]

l2k-shadow. How can you be certain he knows enough about using the Battle.net binary files?

If he is making a Battle.net related program, he should have certain amount of knowledge about hash files. If he doesn't then he can download countless sources using a locally hashed connection and use a hashing library like BNCSUtil which is open source and contains a public VB example which would be easily ported over to RB. IMO hashing is easier and quicker to code than a BNLS connection.

[UserLoser.]

Hmm.. Are you sure its not Arga? Oh well..

Somehow, I got four replies, not a single one relating to my post .

However, thanks for the good ideas. I will have to look into local hashing.

I thought the main reason to use BNLS was that you did not have to update your bots hashes.. or is this bogus?

It's Arta, not Arga.  And sorry, I don't have any input for you.