"Ghost Mode"

[FailBot]

I was browsing around the forums and saw someone say that you could "log on" to battle.net and send stuff "anonymously", but not receive stuff. How would one go about adding this into a bot, because I am intrigued.

[Barabajagal]

Don't enter chat. Or, if you do, leave chat again. It's not hard to do.

[FailBot]

Cool TY I'll try this out.

~Edit I can't get it to work, I send packet 0x10 right? and then try and whisper some one?

~Edit Again I Got it Thanks Andy.

[bulletproof tiger]

FailBot, watch out... remember... he can write a bot in less than half an hour... as stated by him. So don't take his word for it

[Yegg]

FailBot, watch out... remember... he can write a bot in less than half an hour... as stated by him. So don't take his word for it

Is it just me or is there always a new troll to take place of the retired one's?

[Barabajagal]

Uh.... he said he got it. What are you talking about?

@Yegg: I'm fairly certain there's only 2 or 3 of them with constantly shifting accounts.

[bulletproof tiger]

What? It could be hard to that FailBot guy... RealityNipple doesn't know.

[iago]

By leaving chat, you're basically simulating being in a game. You're logged onto Battle.net but not in any channels.

[Barabajagal]

Not quite... To simulate being in a game, you have to send STARTADVEX3. I've actually seen people on official clients that leave chat for about 5 minutes before being disconnected (ISPs do weird things).

[bulletproof tiger]

Not quite... To simulate being in a game, you have to send STARTADVEX3. I've actually seen people on official clients that leave chat for about 5 minutes before being disconnected (ISPs do weird things).

What do you mean? You're able to tell that people are still on bnet with them being off the chat servers for 5 minutes? Like in some sort of ghost mode? The ISPs grant them this ghost mode ability?

[Barabajagal]

Clients send leavechat before disconnecting. The client has to actually terminate the connection in order to be offline. Before that state, you are in an empty area. If your ISP is stupid, it won't send the connection termination, thus leaving your account logged in to that empty area until BNet times you out and disconnects you itself.

[iago]

Clients send leavechat before disconnecting. The client has to actually terminate the connection in order to be offline. Before that state, you are in an empty area. If your ISP is stupid, it won't send the connection termination, thus leaving your account logged in to that empty area until BNet times you out and disconnects you itself.

It has nothing to do with your ISP sending the connection termination, it's about your client not sending the connection tear-down packets (FIN) correctly.

[bulletproof tiger]

Clients send leavechat before disconnecting. The client has to actually terminate the connection in order to be offline. Before that state, you are in an empty area. If your ISP is stupid, it won't send the connection termination, thus leaving your account logged in to that empty area until BNet times you out and disconnects you itself.

It has nothing to do with your ISP sending the connection termination, it's about your client not sending the connection tear-down packets (FIN) correctly.

hehe, that's what i was getting at

[Sixen]

Hence why if you try to get back on right away, you'll get an error message saying that your own CDKey is in use by you.

[Barabajagal]

iago: it was on the actual D1 client. It also happened to the same person on SC, D2, and W2. It was most definitely the ISP.