OOB commands

Commands sent by client

connect: sent to server from CL_CheckForResend() in order to acknowledge server's connection challenge. When the server receives this command and accepts the connection, it will send a connectResponse message back to the client and will will send netchan messages to client from then on.

getchallenge: sent to server from CL_CheckForResend() in order to ask server to send back a connection challenge.

getinfo: sent to server from CL_Ping_f() and CL_UpdateVisiblePings_f() in order to query the server's info.

getKeyAuthorize: sent to AUTHORIZE_SERVER_NAME ("authorize.quake3arena.com") from CL_RequestAuthorization() in order to authorize its CD key. When a client requests a connection to a server, the server will send an getIpAuthorize command to AUTHORIZE_SERVER_NAME. The server will accept the client if a valid CD key was sent to the authorize server by that client in the last 15 minutes. (If no response is received from the authorize server after two tries, the client will be let in anyway.)

getmotd: sent to UPDATE_SERVER_NAME ("update.quake3arena.com") from CL_RequestMotd() in order to ask for software update messages from id.

getservers: sent to MASTER_SERVER_NAME ("master.quake3arena.com") from CL_GlobalServers_f() in order to request a list of open servers.

getstatus: sent to server from CL_ServerStatus() and CL_ServerStatus_f() in order to query the server's status.

banUser: sent to AUTHORIZE_SERVER_NAME ("authorize.quake3arena.com") from SV_Ban_f() and SV_BanNum_f() in order to ban a user from being able to play on the server through the auth server.

challengeResponse: sent to client from SV_GetChallenge() and SV_AuthorizeIpPacket() in response to client's getchallenge message. If the client successfully authenticates with the auth server, this message is sent to the client with a randomly generated challenge key. The client must then respond with this key in its connect() message in order to successfully connect.

connectResponse: sent to client from SV_DirectConnect() to notify it that its connect command was accepted.

disconnect: sent to an unknown client from SV_PacketEvent() when the server receives a Netchan message from a client that is not connected.

getIpAuthorize: sent to AUTHORIZE_SERVER_NAME ("authorize.quake3arena.com") from SV_GetChallenge() in order to authorize a client's CD key. The server will accept the client only if the client sent a getKeyAuthorize message with a valid CD key to the authorize server in the last 15 minutes. (If no response is received from the authorize server after two tries, the client will be let in anyway.)

heartbeat: sent to master servers from SV_MasterHeartbeat() to update the master servers about the server's current status. The master servers include MASTER_SERVER_NAME ("master.quake3arena.com") and/or whatever is listed in sv_master1, sv_master2, sv_master3, sv_master4, and sv_master5.

infoResponse: sent to client from SVC_Info() in response to client's getinfo command.

print: sent to client from SV_DirectConnect() and SV_AuthorizeIpPacket() in order to print a console message notifying the user why his connection isn't accepted. Also sent by SV_FlushRedirect() on the behest of SVC_RemoteCommand() in order to redirect console output to a remote console.

statusResponse: sent to client from SVC_Status() in response to client's getstatus command.