I've been playing Hedgewars for a few weeks now, and I wanted to know more about the protocol used by the servers. After a few wireshark scans I finally decided to look at the source code and I found the file 'netnewclient.cpp'. Still out of curiosity I netcat'ed to the masterserver and decided to make a little interface that would reproduce a regular client's behaviour in game.

This python shell (put a lot of double quotes around 'shell') connects and auth to the masterserver and allows you to chat with other players online (you can also get an incomplete list of the created rooms).

This script is not meant to be used at all (except if you want an easy way to chat with hw players on the main server), I only did it out of curiosity for the protocol used in hw, and also because I like to share my work You can quit the shell by typing '/quit', and get a list (incomplete) of rooms with '/rooms'. Any other input will be sent to the server as a chat string.

If you have questions about the code, I'll answer them
Thank you.

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