Aberchat Intermud Protocol

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Introduction

This file gives a description of how AberMUDs can communicate with each other and the protocol used. I don't know of any implementation outside the Aber-community, but as usual I'm working on an LPC implementation for OuterSpace.

Note that not just anybody can join up with this network: you need to register your MUD first (with a password which will be checked). The registration information should contain at least the name and IP address of your MUD, the port to use and a desired password. These are currently (previously?) handled by Kroll@SMiLE (email smile{at}mirai{dot}net).

Aberchat communication is done via a TCP connection to a central intermud router. Which is pretty much the same idea as (the newer?) I3. The (only) currently available aberchat router is ???.

Protocol design

Every message send is a "human readable" string.
Every message consists of a 'destination', a 'command' and 'parameters'.

A typical message looks like:

0^Gdestination^Gcommand^Gargument1^Gargument2...

A typical message to all muds looks like:

1^Gcommand^Gargument1^Gargument2...

The ^G character here is a special seperator (ASCII 7). This implies that this chacater is explicitly disallowed in the content of the arguments. (Bad luck for Embe@Silke I guess :) [Error opening file `/wwwsys/mud.stack.nl/intermud/../footer.txt': No such file or directory] [Error parsing directive]