$Getinfo

SBSoftEA · Post by **SBSoftEA** » 2003-01-31 08:10

well, you are all probably familiar with the $Getinfo command.
don't know what all the other hub developers are doing, but the SBHub doesn't use the getinfo command anymore. (what i do is send the $Myinfo of every user to a new user when he logs in, and i send his $myinfo to everyone else and it works

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My proposal is, that we get ride of the Getinfo command alltogether since it uses unneccessary bandwidth. What i think we should do, is introduce a new command, that is send to the client in response to $Getnicklist (with the list of course). Once the client gets this, he won't send any $Getinfo commands to the hub, which should save some wasted bandwidth.
What do you think?

Sedulus · Post by **Sedulus** » 2003-01-31 08:59

did you read Nev's QuickList?
http://forum.dcstats.net/showthread.php?threadid=802

ender · Post by **ender** » 2003-01-31 11:25

Download bandwidth is rarely filled by the hub - upload is. In the hub I'm working on, I expect non-QuickList conforming clients to send $GetInfo, while I automatically send $MyINFO to QuickList clients...
Now let's just hope that a client which supports QuickList appears

SBSoftEA · Post by **SBSoftEA** » 2003-01-31 12:07

well yeah, but it would probably make it nice for hub owners who don't have at least .5 mbit download (believe it or not, there are 56k hubs out there =P) and it would also save proccessor usage (since most people run their hub on an older comp...)

ivulfusbar · Post by **ivulfusbar** » 2003-01-31 12:38

GetINFO can be used for bots etc that doesn't need to get all the information from all the users...

TasMan · Post by **TasMan** » 2003-01-31 15:42

Well Shadows Direct Connect (client as well as a hub) supports QuickList

(hence the reason for my complaint on the QuickList EXTENDEDPROTOCOL thingy)

I'll be releasing it this weekend probably....but then again - it doesn't download, upload, etc...though for now it's the VB editions only (still learning C++/MFC)