I’d like to write up a little applet for the Gnome panel to tell me when people are playing. Is there a (simple) way to query the server for that kind of information? HTTP/XMLRPC interface or something? barring that, is the protocol that Rune itself uses to query said information documented in any way?
Original thread: https://lowcaliber.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7786011002/m/4466068075
… Reason being, I just missed Unter twice: I saw his depart from LCA, refreshed, and there was his depart from the second server. 
You might want to check out Rune Server Query by Critter first?
We kept it simple, radix; an http request with basic authenitcation will get you a nice synopsis. Should I send you the details by email; and why aren’t you a minor yet?
Sure, email is fine. My address is in my profile, I think. Please mention how often a request to this service is appropriate, since I’m going to have to poll it to implement this.
Unter, about Minorship, I expect I don’t have it because I haven’t been around very much; I was having problems with my OpenGL drivers for a while (a couple of months?) so I haven’t really spent a ton of time in the arena with members/minors.
Ah, sorry for not replying Dante – It doesn’t seem the tool will be useful, for two reasons: it’s for windows, and the source doesn’t seem to be available, so I can’t look at it to figure out the protocol 
But thanks for the suggestion! 
Don’t worry, radix! I know it might not suit your linux purposes, and meant it only as a suggestion…
Good luck with your programming..
Haven’t received any info yet. No rush, of course, I just don’t want to be forgotten
Radix, I have to head out of town for a few weeks on account of school. In the mean time, throw up an http request to:
which gives you your information in a slightly buried format (you’ll have to parse a tad bit). That will integrate your requests with the ninety second cache already in place, and allow you some freedom in determining an appropriate request cycle.
When I get back, we can deal with pinging the server directly; which involves some security issues.
Ahh, yes, I noticed that URL before; I was curious how those server status things worked so I rummaged through the source. 90 seconds is quite often enough, I think.
Thanks!
First give this a read: IPServer Package for Unreal. Next, this should help better understand the actual network data packets: UT query code. Once you understand that, it should be relatively simple to develop a querying script and GUI using Perl and Curses.
Later! 