[sldev] message template updates, logging in change?

Phoenix phoenix at secondlife.com
Fri Jul 13 10:59:14 PDT 2007


I have documented the new packet layout. Apologies for the lack of  
coordination with the release.

Briefly, flags is 1 byte, sequence is 4 bytes, there's a skip byte  
and then as many bytes as found in the skip byte before the start of  
the payload. For details:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Packet_Layout


On 2007/07/12, at 14:32, Joel Riedesel wrote:

> Hello.
> The message templates changed to a version 2.0 in the 1.18 update.
> Message headers appear to have been changed as well allowing for 32  
> bit
> sequence numbers instead of 24 bit.  I think.
>
> I haven't been able to find any documentation on protocol changes for
> 1.18, is that available somewhere?  Has the login data changed at all?
> My initial login comes back with a circuit code, etc., but my first
> packet never gets a response (UseCircuitCode) which leads me to  
> believe
> that I still do not have it constructed properly for the 1.18 update.
> (Although network sniffing makes me think I have my packet constructed
> properly as compared against what the SL Viewer is sending.)
>
> No problems until the 1.18 update was rolled out.
>
> I am not using the SL Viewer source code for my SL client.  Thus it  
> is a
> bit of a pain when the protocol changes without supporting  
> documentation
> (and if I'm wrong about that please correct me).
>
> Joel
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