Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Additional metaserver?

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> > I assume the server and the metaserver must use the same protocol ?
> 
> Not at all.  The metaserver doesn't use the Freeciv protocol; instead, it uses
> a trivial UDP-based protocol to receive announcements from servers, and
> HTTP to serve out the results to clients (and humans).

Yet server/meta.c:send_to_metaserver() contains two calls to
put_int16(), the results of which have changed with the change
to network byte order.  Does that upset the metaserver, or
does the metaserver ignore those bytes anyway?

-- David