[sldev] message template updates, logging in change?

Aidan Thornton makosoft at googlemail.com
Sat Jul 14 07:10:58 PDT 2007


On 7/13/07, Phoenix <phoenix at secondlife.com> wrote:
> 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

Ah, so that's what the 6th byte is used for. (It was zero in all the
packets I looked at.) I suppose the libsecondlife packet decoding code
needs fixing sometime... preferably before someone starts sending
packets with extra header information.


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