Added endianess to procotol.txt
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1 Minetest-c55 protocol (incomplete, early draft):
2 Updated 2011-06-18
3
4 A custom protocol over UDP.
5 Integers are big endian.
6 Refer to connection.{h,cpp} for further reference.
7
8 Initialization:
9 - A dummy reliable packet with peer_id=PEER_ID_INEXISTENT=0 is sent to the server:
10         - Actually this can be sent without the reliable packet header, too, i guess,
11           but the sequence number in the header allows the sender to re-send the
12           packet without accidentally getting a double initialization.
13         - Packet content:
14                 # Basic header
15                 u32 protocol_id = PROTOCOL_ID = 0x4f457403
16                 u16 sender_peer_id = PEER_ID_INEXISTENT = 0
17                 u8 channel = 0
18                 # Reliable packet header
19                 u8 type = TYPE_RELIABLE = 3
20                 u16 seqnum = SEQNUM_INITIAL = 65500
21                 # Original packet header
22                 u8 type = TYPE_ORIGINAL = 1
23                 # And no actual payload.
24 - Server responds with something like this:
25         - Packet content:
26                 # Basic header
27                 u32 protocol_id = PROTOCOL_ID = 0x4f457403
28                 u16 sender_peer_id = PEER_ID_INEXISTENT = 0
29                 u8 channel = 0
30                 # Reliable packet header
31                 u8 type = TYPE_RELIABLE = 3
32                 u16 seqnum = SEQNUM_INITIAL = 65500
33                 # Control packet header
34                 u8 type = TYPE_CONTROL = 0
35                 u8 controltype = CONTROLTYPE_SET_PEER_ID = 1
36                 u16 peer_id_new = assigned peer id to client (other than 0 or 1)
37 - Then the connection can be disconnected by sending:
38         - Packet content:
39                 # Basic header
40                 u32 protocol_id = PROTOCOL_ID = 0x4f457403
41                 u16 sender_peer_id = whatever was gotten in CONTROLTYPE_SET_PEER_ID
42                 u8 channel = 0
43                 # Control packet header
44                 u8 type = TYPE_CONTROL = 0
45                 u8 controltype = CONTROLTYPE_DISCO = 2
46