I wouldn't worry about crawlers that are implemented so poorly that they can't handle a connection sending stuff to them and then closing. It almost sounds nonsensical to even say such a thing.

BTW, "Futuristic" as a genre doesn't sound like the same thing as "Science Fiction" to me, although I would agree that Star Wars is science fiction, not merely futuristic.

Corrected. Thank you. Do I need to add it to the crawler or will it somehow find my MUD itself?

I manually added it to my crawler, though that shows a pretty big problem, you're not sending the start and end tags:

MSSP-REPLY-START\r\n

and

MSSP-REPLY-END\r\n

This was all from Keberus' snippet, so apparently he is missing more.



EDIT TO ADD:

I see, this needs corrected:

write_to_descriptor( d, "\r\nMSSP-REPLY-START\r\n", 0 );

   mssp_reply( d, "HOSTNAME", "%s", mssp_info->hostname );
   mssp_reply( d, "PORT", "%d", port );



and…


   mssp_reply( d, "ROLEPLAYING", "%s", mssp_info->roleplaying );
   mssp_reply( d, "TRAINING SYSTEM", "%s", mssp_info->trainingSystem );
   mssp_reply( d, "WORLD ORIGINALITY", "%s", mssp_info->worldOriginality );
   write_to_descriptor( d, "MSSP-REPLY-END\r\n", 0 );

That's in mssp_reply.

In my opinion it would fit under either Science Fiction or Fantasy (Star Wars is a combination of both, but "Science Fantasy" isn't a permitted genre choice). I wouldn't feel comfortable using the term "futuristic" to describe a story which takes place "a long time ago", even if it is "in a galaxy far far away".

What's wrong with it? Everything seemed to work when I tested it, try connecting to your own mud and doing an MSSP-REQUEST at login, see if you get all the info.

It does now. It was using write_to_descriptor to send the reply-start and reply-end, and it had to be changed to mssp_reply.

Hmm…that's odd, because mssp_reply calls write_to_descriptor_printf which then calls write_to_descriptor, but that would mean that MSSP-REPLY-START and MSSP-REPLY-END would be sent with tabs and such as if they had variables…as far as I can tell, that shouldn't be necessary, the only other thing I can think of is that I put the descriptor checks in mssp_reply. At any rate, I'm glad to hear that you got it working, and I would be curious to find out if anyone applies the same 'fix' to this for it to work for them as well.

Thanks,
KeB