Question: How to query server for player list?

[curiousGamblerr]

Hey folks-

 

Does anyone know how to query a server externally to get the player list, like is done for online.il2forever.com? RandomExpert+ and TAW both have their player lists on their websites too, but that's not necessarily done from outside the server machine like il2forever.

 

Anyway, I would really appreciate any info or documentation on how to do this.

 

Thanks!

 

Edit: It occurred to me I should just ask Pand because he obviously knows how to do this to create his graphs... hopefully he sees this 

Edited November 26, 2016 by 19.GIAP//curiousGamblerr

[coconut]

online.il2forever.com uses the remote console. AFAIK this is the only documented way to do it directly.

[216th_Jordan]

online.il2forever.com uses the remote console. AFAIK this is the only documented way to do it directly.

 

just out of interest when you say documented: can you point me to that? I would like to understand how this works

[No_85_Gramps]

Try this link: http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/12832-bos-launcher/

 

Still works and pulls-up some of the servers but hasn't been updated in a while.

[coconut]

just out of interest when you say documented: can you point me to that? I would like to understand how this works

 

See bin/console/readme.txt

[JimTM]

Also, see the following in the IL-2 Sturmovik Mission Editor and Multiplayer Server Manual:

- Players List (pg. 338) in the Remote Console Interface (pg. 336)

- Control a Multiplayer Mission Server From Any PC (pg. 173)

[curiousGamblerr]

Guys this is great stuff, some quick perusal and I'm sure I can find what I need among these resources. Thanks!

[LLv34_Temuri]

Would be nice if there was some other way to get the player amount. Our VirtualPilots Moscow Warbirds server uses the remote console to send serverinput commands to the mission, so basically we can't allow an outside party access.

[MarcoRossolini]

http://online.il2forever.com/

 

This displays most of the populated servers, all from your web browser.

[LLv34_Temuri]

http://online.il2forever.com/

 

This displays most of the populated servers, all from your web browser.

Not the ones that matter to me