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my question is intended for rapmaster but anyone else who can help, please do



i am interested in making a chat bot for battlenet in vb...let me just say that i have several years experience working with VB and i am attendending college in january, majoring in comp sci.
i am also familiar with the winsock control


in another post, rapmaster said to analyze how the server formats messages...i got telnet open and used port 6112...
my question is how do i analyze how the server formats messeages???


thanks for any help
 
You won't be doing much VB in college =)

When you are telnetting in, the server sends information to you with certain codes and flags... and there are certain commands that it recognizes from you (the rest is interpreted as talking.) This is the 'protocol'


Once you connect on port 6112, send a lowercase 'c' character and then enter a username/password (account must be created with a battle.net game like Starcraft, Diablo II etc-- but not Warcraft III.) (Everything will be blank until you send that 'c')

For example here is a battle.net session:

Connection from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

Enter your account name and password.
Use 'anonymous' if you only want to issue queries.

Username: rapmaster
Password:

2010 NAME rapmaster
1007 CHANNEL "Public Chat 2"
1001 USER xi-control 0010 [CHAT]
1001 USER full-throttle 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER RuiSong 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER rapmaster 0010 [CHAT]
1018 INFO "Welcome to Battle.net!"
1018 INFO "This server is hosted by AT&T."
1018 INFO "There are currently 405 users in Chat, and 145929 users playing 61633
games on Battle.net."
1019 ERROR "Chatting with this game is restricted to the channels listed in the
channel menu."
1018 INFO "Last logon: Wed Oct 30 10:45 PM"
1019 ERROR "Failed logon attempts since then: 1"
/join open tech support
1007 CHANNEL "Open Tech Support"
1001 USER tamshighlander2 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER b18c@Lordaeron 0000 [WAR3]
1001 USER chickin_killer 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER PhrozenBot 0010 [CHAT]
1001 USER wirey_tjk 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER KillingRight 0000 [SEXP]
1001 USER fantasydeath2 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER ascendingfear 0000 [D2XP]
1001 USER rapmaster 0010 [CHAT]
1018 INFO "This is an open channel where you can get help on"
1018 INFO "technical problems from other users. To talk to"
1018 INFO "Blizzard's technical support group, use the"
1018 INFO "Blizzard Tech Support channel."
1005 TALK KillingRight 0000 "[][][][]?"
hi
1005 TALK KillingRight 0000 "Hi"
1002 JOIN donnas 0000 [D2XP]
Click to expand...

basically your program needs to read this stuff and format it as needed (for example the 1001 USER lines are used to build your list of people in the channel)



Here's a bit of info: http://www.zotteljedi.de/bnet/protocol.html (there used to be some better references but I can't find them. It's not that hard to figure out.)

I assume you know how to get your program to connect and read/send info to the server. It's really easy in VB with the winsock control.
 
thanks for the help rapmaster i'll try what u said and ask u more questions if i need to..


*i also know C++*
intermediate skills


looking forward to learn more languages at school like Java or whatever


also rapmaster i would like to know ur credentials to see what u did to accumulate so much knowledge


thanks once again



"Knowlege is POWER"
 
DAMN....Y doesnt it work with warcraft III?

Cuz thats what i got
 
Hi

If any one that wants to join my clan on diablo that can make dats or make bots ill b hapopy to accept them :p im the leader of (HM) HitMen clan for diablo my name is DarkArcher(HM)
 
I'll assume that you're all the same person -

Battle.net's CHAT protocol is what Rapmaster is talking about. This is the protocol people are using when you see the chat icon next to their name on the userlist in any of Blizzard's games. If you wanted to support logging on as games, with all the fun that entails, you'd have to write a bot which emulates the game, which is much harder but by no means impossible. Since this is technically a violation of Blizzard's EULA I can't give out details here but there is plenty of VB sample code on the internet if you look hard enough :)

I can, however, tell you that I know of only 2 people on Battle.net who have successfully reverse engineered Warcraft III's logon (they did it together) and they're keeping their findings private.
 
When I say it doesn't work with war3 I just mean you need to use a Starcraft or Diablo (1+2) or War2bne account. War3 uses its own account system that chat connections can't use. They can still talk to each other on b.net

Chat connections are very limited now-- you can only get into certain channels. It is essentially useless to make such a bot now (unless you want to hang out in tech support channels) but its a good learning experience.
-

My credentials... well I taught myself BASIC programming when I was like 11 years old and eventually did a lot of VB. I haven't really touched VB in a long time though. When going to college for computer science I realized how unstructured and ugly my old code was. I eventually dropped out of comp sci after a few years because it drove me insane. Flipped over to hardware/IT/networking stuff which I'm doing at college now and working on and off for the Canadian government. I know a lot about a few things and a little about everything else when it comes to computers :)
 
Originally posted by Arta
Since this is technically a violation of Blizzard's EULA I can't give out details here
Click to expand...

The only thing that goes against the EULA is if you didn't buy the game you're emulating, or are using someone else's CD Key.
 
Section 3 of the War3 EULA specifcally says you can't reverse engineer the program, or connect to b.net through any type of emulated program. Not sure about other games. Of course some people question the legality of such terms in a EULA and it may even conflict with laws in some areas, but that's what it says, for what its worth.

(again, this doesn't apply to chat bots)
 
I didn't read the war3 EULA, assumed it was the same as D1/War2/SC.
 
Of course, as Arta mentioned-- there aren't any (or at least many) bots that emulate War3. Obviously Blizzard updated it to be more clear in War3.

But reverse-engineering (kind of a broad term) has always been prohibited.
 
Any chance you want to make the bot open source and have it hosted here? I know how to program in VB and can probably help.
 
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