Mark Wedel Wrote:<br>> I was thinking about this metaserver some more, and had some various<br>> thoughts.<br>><br>> 1) Has someone agreed to run the metametaserver? What about the slave<br>> metaservers? While all this looks nice, if you don't have people willing
<br>> to run it/take care of it, it is all pretty pointless. For the<br>> metametaserver, I'm thinking more of the Tanner's, since they currently<br>> hold the main crossfire home page, but of course, the metametaserver could
<br>> move someplace else (not as sure how many people have as stable and ip<br>> address and network connection that they do).<br><br>
As I discused on irc, I may be able to host one of the metaservers, pending the purchase of new hardware.<br>
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> Just some thoughts. I'd probably still be good to rewrite the metaserver<br>
> logic, but IMO, having the servers talk to web servers is an extra complication<br>
> - pretty much all metaservers that are out there (certainly netrek at a minimum)<br>
> use their own protocol for the servers to update the metaserver.<br>
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http is simple imo<br>
afaik the header can be thrown away, except for any error codes included in it.<br>
<br>-- <br>--<br>Andrew Fuchs<br>