NAME qstat - Get statistics from on-line game servers SYNOPSIS qstat [options ...] [-f file] [-of|-af output-file] [-server-option host[:port]] [-raw delimiter] [-default server-type] host[:port] ... Version 2.4e DESCRIPTION QStat is a command-line program that displays information about Internet game servers. The servers are either down, non-responsive, or running a game. For servers running a game, the server name, map name, current number of players, and response time are displayed. Server rules and player information may also be displayed. Games supported include Quake, QuakeWorld, Hexen II, Quake II, HexenWorld, Unreal, Half-Life, Sin, Shogo, Tribes, Tribes 2, Quake III: Arena, BFRIS, Kingpin, and Heretic II, Unreal Tournament, Soldier of Fortune, Rogue Spear, Redline, Turok II, Blood 2, Descent 3, Drakan, KISS, Nerf Arena Blast, Rally Master, Terminous, Wheel of Time, and Daikatana. Note for Tribes 2: QStat only supports Tribes 2 builds numbered 22075 or higher. Some games use query protocols compatible with an existing game. These servers can be queried using the flags for the compatible game. For instance, Turok2 should work using the -uns flag. Unreal Tournament is also supported by the -uns but is not really a different game. You can distinguish Unreal Tournament games with the "minnetver" server rule (standard Unreal servers have a "mingamever" server rule). The Quake servers can be divided into two categories: POQS (Plain Old Quake Server) and QuakeWorld. Quake shareware, Quake commercial (from CD), winquake, winded, unixded, and Hexen II are all POQS. The various versions of QuakeWorld and Quake II use a QuakeWorld type server. The distinction is based on network protocol used to query the servers, and affects the kind of information available for display. The different server types can be queried simultaneously. If QStat detects that this is being done, the output is keyed by the type of server being displayed. See DISPLAY OPTIONS. The game server may be specified as an IP address or a hostname. Servers can be listed on the command-line or, with the use of the -f option, a text file. DISPLAY MODES One line will be displayed for each server queried. The first component of the line will be the server's address as given on the command-line or the file. This can be used as a key to match input addresses to server status. Server rules and player information are displayed under the server info, indented by one tab stop. QStat supports three additional display modes: raw, templates, and XML. In raw mode, the server information is displayed using simple delimiters and no formatting. This mode is good for programs that parse and reformat QStat's output. The template mode uses text files to layout the server information within existing text. This is ideal for generating web pages. The XML mode outputs server information wrapped in simple XML tags. The raw mode is enabled using the -raw option, template output is enabled using -Ts, and XML output is enabled with -xml. GAME OPTIONS These options select which servers to query and what game type they are running. Servers are specified by IP address (for example: 199.2.18.4) or hostname. Servers can be listed on the command-line or in a file (see option -f.) The game type of a server can be specified with its address, or a default game type can be set for all addresses that don't have a game type. The following table shows the command-line option and type strings for the supported game types. The type string is used with the -default option and in files with the -f option. Option Type Default Port Game Server String -qs qs 26000 Quake -h2s h2s 26900 Hexen II -qws qws 27500 QuakeWorld -hws hws 26950 HexenWorld -q2s q2s 27910 Quake II -uns uns 7777 Unreal -hls hls 27015 Half-Life -sns sns 22450 Sin -sgs sgs 27888 Shogo: Mobile Armor Division -tbs tbs 28001 Starsiege: Tribes -t2s t2s 28000 Tribes 2 -qwm qwm 27000 QuakeWorld master -q2m q2m 27900 Quake II master -hlm hlm 27010 Half-Life master -tbm tbm 28000 Tribes master -t2m t2m 28002 Tribes 2 master -q3s q3s 27960 Quake III -q3m q3m 27950 Quake III master -bfs bfs 44001 BFRIS -kps kps 31510 Kingpin -hrs hrs 28910 Heretic II -sfs sfs 28910 Soldier of Fortune -gsm gsm 28900 Gamespy master -gps gps - Game using "Gamespy style" protocol -d3m d3m 3445 Descent 3 PXO master -d3p d3p 2092 Descent 3, PXO server -d3s d3s 2092 Descent 3, LAN server -d3g d3g 20142 Descent 3, Gamespy protocol The command-line options can be specified multiple times, one for each server to be queried. Descent 3 Support for Descent 3 is a bit fragmented. There are three different protocols for getting status information from a Descent 3 server: PXO, LAN, and Gamespy. If the server was acquired from the PXO master server, then the PXO protocol is used. If the server is running on the local LAN (not reporting to a master server), then the LAN protocol should be used. Finally, if the server's Gamespy query port is known (default is 20142) then the Gamespy protcol can be used. The gamespy protocol can be used on servers listed in the PXO master. Each protocol reports different information. The Gamespy protocol provides player names, frags, deaths, and ping. The PXO and LAN protocols only provide player names. The ideal solution would be a PXO server list paired with each server's gamespy query port. Most servers will use the default gamespy query port, unless there are multiple servers on the same machine. A possible approach is to get the server list from the PXO master like this: qstat -d3m,outfile gt.pxo.net,d3pxo.txt Then convert the file from "d3p" to "d3g" and remove the port numbers: sed -e 's/d3p/d3g/' -e 's/:.*$//' d3pxo.txt > d3gs.txt Then run the servers in d3gs.txt with -f: qstat -f d3gs.txt This technique will retrieve the full player info for servers using the default gamespy query port. Broadcast Queries QStat has limited support for broadcast queries. Broadcast queries use one network packet to find all the game servers on a local network. A broadcast returns servers of one type on one port. You may only broadcast to networks to which you computer is directly attached (ie. local networks). In this release, broadcast queries are only supported for: Quake II servers and Gamespy style servers. A broadcast query is specified by prefixing an address with a '+' (plus sign). The address should be 255.255.255.255 or a valid broadcast address for your local network. On Unixes, 'ifconfig -a' will display the broadcast address for all attached networks. Master Servers Master server addresses don't change very often, but some times they go off-line. The following is a table of some of the master servers I know about. Game Master Servers satan.idsoftware.com (ports 27000, 27002, 27003, 27004, QuakeWorld27006), 204.182.161.2, 194.217.251.40, 203.34.140.1, 200.245.221.200, 194.87.251.3 Quake II satan.idsoftware.com, q2master.planetquake.com Half-Life half-life.west.won.net (128.167.56.46), half-life.east.won.net Tribes tribes.dynamix.com Quake III master3.idsoftware.com (192.246.40.56), q3master.splatterworld.de [German] Gamespy master0.gamespy.com Tribes 2 211.233.32.77:28002, 217.6.160.205:28002 Descent 3 gt.pxo.net Gamespy Master Access to the gamespy masters has been disabled by Gamespy Inc. Server lists can be fetched from Gamespy masters by using the gsm game type. A query argument is required to use the Gamespy master. This extra argument indicates which server list to get from the master. The query argument can be one of the QStat supported game types or any other string that will fetch a server list. The following game types can be used as query arguments: qws, q2s, q3s, tbs, uns, sgs, hls, kps, hrs, sfs. For each of the game types, QStat will fetch the appropriate server list and get status from each server. The query argument can also be any string that the Gamespy master responds to. Most of these games support a "standard" server status protocol that I'll call the "Gamespy status protocol". Not surprisingly, it is almost identical to the Unreal server status protocol. This means that QStat can support any game that supports this protocol. In QStat these games are queried using the gps game type. Through experimentation I've found the following query arguments. Query Argument Game roguespear Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear redline Redline Racer turok2 Turok 2: Seeds of Evil blood2 Blood 2: The Chosen drakan Drakan: Order of the Flame kiss KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child nerfarena Nerf Arena Blast rally Rally Masters: Michelin Race Of Champions terminous Terminous (?) wot The Wheel of Time daikatana Daikatana Tribes 2 Master The Tribes 2 master server supports a number of filtering options. You can set these filters with QStat by appending query arguments to the server type. The general syntax is: t2m,query-arg=value, ... Query Argument Values Description Mod path the server is using. The game mod path mod path of unaltered servers is "base". Use query=types to get the list of known game types. Bounty, Capture the Flag, CnH, Mission type the server is mission Deathmatch, Hunters, currently running. Use query=types Rabbit, Siege, to get the list of known mission TeamHunters types. minplayers 0 - 255 Servers with fewer players than this will not be returned. maxplayers 1 - 255 Servers with more players than this will not be returned. Limit servers to those in the given geographical regions. See Region List table. The regionlist is sent as a bit mask to the regions list of regions or Tribes 2 master. If you know the 0xhex-value bit mask for a region QStat doesn't support, you can specify the bitmask directly by supplying a hex value: regions=0x11. Only return servers matching this build version number. [4/20/2001] This filter only seems to work if build build version # the build version # is 22337. If the filter is 22228, then the master returns 0 servers. This appears to be a bug in the T2 master. Limit servers to those with these status flags set. The list is one or more status flags separated by colons (':'). To filter on list of dedicated, dedicated Linux servers, specify status linux, nopassword status=dedicated:linux or 0xhex-value If you know a status flag that QStat doesn't support, you can specify the status flags directly by supplying a hex value: status=0x3 maxbots 0 - 255 Servers with more bots than this will not be returned. mincpu 0 - 65535 Servers with lower CPU speed than this will not be returned. Get the list of game and mission types. This is not a filter but a different master request. Using this query argument overrides any other query arguments. The list of game and mission types known to query types the master server will be displayed. In raw mode, the first line is the list of game types and the second line is the list of mission types. There is no output template support for game and mission lists. Region List The region list is one or more region arguments separated by colons (':'). For example, to filter on North American servers specify regions=naeast:nawest Region Argument Geography naeast North America East nawest North America West sa South America aus Australia asia Asia eur Europe The Tribes 2 master query arguments can be used on the command-line or in a server list file (via the -f option). If the values contain spaces, be sure to quote the arguments for your shell. The second example below demonstrates this usage for most common shells. To query for Capture the Flag servers that have more than 6 players: qstat -t2m,mission=Capture the Flag,minplayers=6 master-server-ip qstat -t2m,mission="Capture the Flag",minplayers=6 master-server-ip If you want to do this in a server list file, that would look like this: t2m,mission=Capture the Flag,minplayers=6 master-server-ip Master server filters can be combined with the "outfile" option. Just put outfile some where in the query argument list and put the name of the output file after the master IP address: t2m,outfile,mission=Siege,minplayers=4 master-server-ip,siegeservers.txt Warning: There is a bug in the 22075 build of Tribes 2 that doesn't return the game name. For those builds, QStat will use the game info in place of the game name. The bug is fixed in the 22228 build. In fixed servers, the game info can be found in the "info" server rule. Half-Life Master The Half-Like master server supports a number of filtering options. You can set these filters with QStat by appending query arguments to the server type. The general syntax is: hlm,query-arg=value, ... Query Argument Values Description game mod path Servers running this "mod". map map name Servers running this map. Limit servers to those matching this list of dedicated, status. The list is one or more status status linux, notempty, flags separated by colons (':'). To notfull filter on dedicated servers that are not empty, specify status=dedicated:notempty See the Tribes 2 master server above for example usage. Option Usage -server-option host[:port] Query game server host for status. The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available server-options and their default port. -master-server-option host[:port] Query a game master for its server list and then query all the servers. The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available master-server-options and their default port. -master-server-option,outfile host[:port],file Query a game master for its server list and store it in file. If the master cannot be contacted, then file is not changed. If file is - (a single dash), then stdout is used. The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available master-server-options and their default port. -gsm,query-argument host[:port] Query a Gamespy master for a server list and then query all the servers. The Gamespy Master section details the supported values for query-argument. -gsm,query-argument,outfile host[:port],file Query a Gamespy master for a server list and store it in file. If the master cannot be contacted, then file is not changed. If file is - (a single dash), then stdout is used. The Gamespy Master section details the supported values for query-argument. -q3m,query-argument host[:port] Query a Quake 3 Arena master for a protocol-specific server list and then query all the servers. The query-argument should be a Quake 3 protocol version. Protocol version 48 is Quake 3 version 1.27, protocol 46 is Quake 3 version 1.25, protocol 45 is Quake 3 1.17, protocol 43 is Quake 3 version 1.11. The default is protocol version 48. -q3m,query-argument,outfile host[:port],file Query a Quake 3 Arena master for a protocol-specific server list and store it in file. The query-argument should be a Quake 3 protocol version. Protocol version 46 is Quake 3 version 1.25, protocol 45 is Quake 3 1.17, protocol 43 is Quake 3 version 1.11. The default is protocol version 45. -f file Read host addresses from the given file. If file is -, then read from stdin. Multiple -f options may be used. The file should contain host names or IP addresses separated by white-space (tabs, new-lines, spaces, etc). If an address is preceded by a server type string, then QStat queries the address according to the server type. Otherwise QS is assumed, unless -default is used. The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available server type strings and their default port. -default type-string Set the default server type for addresses where the type is not obvious. This affects the addresses at the end of the qstat command-line and those in a file not prefixed by a server type (see -f). The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available server type strings and their default port. INFO OPTIONS -R Fetch and display server rules. -P Fetch and display player information. DISPLAY OPTIONS The QStat output should be self explanatory. However, the type of information returned is different between game types. If QStat queries multiple server types, then each server status line is prefixed with its type string. The GAME OPTIONS table lists the available type strings. -of file Write output to file instead of stdout or the console. file is over written if it already exists. -af file Like -of, but append to the file. If file does not exist, it is created. -u Only display hosts that are up and running a game server. Does not affect template output. -nf Do not display full servers. Does not affect template output. -ne Do not display empty servers. Does not affect template output. -nh Do not display header line (does not apply to raw or template output.) -cn Display color names instead of numbers. This is the default. Only applies to Quake, QuakeWorld, Hexen II, and HexenWorld. -ncn Display color numbers instead of color names. This is the default for -raw mode. Only applies to Quake, QuakeWorld, Hexen II, and HexenWorld. -hc Display colors in #rrggbb format. This is nice for HTML output. Only applies to Quake, QuakeWorld, Hexen II, and HexenWorld. -tc Display time in clock format (DhDDmDDs). This is the default. -tsw Display time in stop-watch format (DD:DD:DD). -ts Display time in seconds. This is the default for -raw mode. -pa Display player addresses. This is the default for -raw mode. Only available for Quake and Hexen II. -sort sort-keys Sort servers and/or players. Servers and players are sorted according to sort-keys. Lower case sort keys are for servers and upper case keys are for players. The following sort keys are supported: * p - Sort by ping * g - Sort by game (mod) * i - Sort by IP address * h - Sort by hostname * n - Sort by number of players * l - Sort by list order * P - Sort by player ping * F - Sort by frags * T - Sort by team The 'l' (ell) sort key displays servers in the order they were provided to qstat. For example, the order in which they are listed on the command-line or in a file. The 'l' sort key cannot be combined with other server sort keys, but it can be be combined with player sort keys. If the 'l' sort key is used with other sort keys, then the 'l' sort key is ignored. -hpn Display player names in hex. -old Use pre-qstat 1.5 display style. -raw delimiter Display data in "raw" mode. The argument to -raw is used to separate columns of information. All information returned by the game server is displayed. POQS output -- General server information is displayed in this order: command-line arg (IP address or host name), server name, server address (as returned by Quake server), protocol version, map name, maximum players, current players, average response time, number of retries. Server rules are displayed on one line as rule-name=value. If significant packet loss occurs, rules may be missing. Missing rules are indicated by a "?" as the last rule. Player information is displayed one per line: player number, player name, player address, frags, connect time, shirt color, pants color. A blank line separates each set of server information. QuakeWorld and HexenWorld server output -- General server information is displayed in this order: command-line arg (IP address or host name), server name, map name, maximum players, current players, average response time, number of retries. Server rules are displayed on one line as rule-name=value. Player information is displayed one per line: player number, player name, frags, connect time, shirt color, pants color, ping time (milliseconds), skin name. A blank line separates each set of server information. All master server output -- Master server information is displayed in this order: command-line arg (IP address or host name), number of servers. No other information is displayed about master servers. Quake II, Quake III, Half-Life, Sin, BFRIS, Kingpin, Heretic II, Unreal, Tribes 2, and Shogo server output -- General server information and server rules are the same as a QuakeWorld server. The player information varies for each game: + Quake II/III, Sin, Kingpin, Heretic II, Shogo: player name, frags, ping time + Half-Life: player name, frags, connect time + Tribes: player name, frags, ping time, team number, packet loss + Tribes 2: player name, frags, team number, team name, player type, tribe tag + Unreal: player name, frags, ping time, team number, skin, mesh, face + BFRIS: player number, ship, team name, ping time, score, frags, player name + Descent 3: player name, frags, deaths, ping time, team Ping time is in milli-seconds. Connect time is in seconds. A blank line separates each set of server information. Servers queried using the "Gamespy style" protocol use the same raw output format as Unreal servers. -raw-arg When used with -raw, always display the server address as it appeared in a file or on the command-line. Note that when -H is used with -raw, the first field of the raw output could be a hostname if the server IP address was resolved. This can make matching up input servers addresses with raw output lines fairly difficult. When -raw-arg is also used, an additional field, the unresolved server address, is added at the beginning of all raw output lines. -progress Print a progress meter. Displays total servers processed, including timeouts and down servers. The meter is just a line of text that writes over itself with . Handy for interactive use when you are redirecting output to a file (the meter is printed on stderr). -Tserver file -Tplayer file -Theader file -Ttrailer file Output templates. Each template should be a text file containing QStat variables that are substituted for results from the server query. The -Tserver flag must present to enable template output. The other -T flags are optional. The server template is output once for each server queried. The player template, if present, is output once for each player (if -P is also used). The header template is output once before any servers are output. The trailer template is output once after all servers are processed. See Appendix A for the output template formatting and variables. NOTE: All of of the -T flags may be abbreviated with two characters: -Ts, -Tp, -Th, and -Tt. -htmlnames Colorize Quake 3 and Tribes 2 player names using html font tags. Enabled by default if $HTML is used in an output template. -nohtmlnames Do not colorize Quake 3 and Tribes 2 player names even if $HTML is used in an output template. The $HTMLPLAYERNAME variable will always colorize player names. -htmlmode Convert <, >, and & to the equivalent HTML entities. This is the same as $HTML in an output template, but works for raw display mode. Using -htmlmode with -xml will result in double-escaping. -carets Display carets in Quake 3 player names. Carets are used for colorized player names and are remove by default. This option has no effect if -htmlnames is enabled. -xml Output server information wrapped in XML tags. -errors Display errors. SEARCH OPTIONS -H Resolve IP addresses to host names. Use with caution as many game servers do not have registered host names. QStat may take up to a minute to timeout on each unregistered IP address. The duration of the timeout is controlled by your operating system. Names are resolved before attempting to query any servers. -Hcache cache-file Cache host name and IP address resolutions in cache-file. If the file does not exist, it is created. If -Hcache is used without -H, then the cache is only used for host to IP address resolution. WARNING A host cache file should not be shared by QStat programs running at the same time. If you run several QStats at the same time, each should have its own cache file. -interval seconds Interval in seconds between server retries. Specify as a floating point number. Default interval is 0.5 seconds. This option does not apply to master servers (see -mi.) -mi seconds Interval in seconds between master server retries. Specify as a floating point number. Default interval is 2 seconds. -retry number Number of retries. QStat will send this many packets to a host before considering it non-responsive. Default is 3 retries. -maxsimultaneous number Number of simultaneous servers to query. Unix systems have an operating system imposed limit on the number of open sockets per process. This limit varies between 32 and 100 depending on the platform. On Windows 95 and Windows NT, the "select" winsock function limits the number of simultaneous queries to 64. These limits can be increased by minor changes to the code, but the change is different for each platform. Default is 20 simultaneous queries. This option may be abbreviated -maxsim. -timeout seconds Total run time in seconds before giving up. Default is no timeout. NETWORK OPTIONS -srcport port-number | port-range Specify the source ports for sending packets. The ports can be a single number or a range. A range is two numbers separated by a dash ('-'). The numbers should be positive and less than 65535. Use this option to get through a firewall that has source port restrictions. Set -srcport to the range of ports allowed by the firewall. Example: If your firewall will allow outgoing UDP packets on ports 26000-30000, the qstat option would be -srcport 26000-30000 Note: The number of source ports given should be greater than or equal to the -maxsim (defaults to 20). The number of source ports will limit the number of simultaneous server queries. -srcip IP-address Specify a local IP address from which to send packets. This is useful on machines that have multiple IP addresses where the source IP of a packet is checked by the receiver. Normally this option is never needed. NOTES The response time is a measure of the expected playability of the server. The first number is the server's average time in milli-seconds to respond to a request packet from QStat. The second number is the total number of retries required to fetch the displayed information. More retries will cause the average response time to be higher. The response time will be more accurate if more requests are made to the server. For POQS, a request is made for each server rule and line of player information. So setting the -P and -R options will result in a more accurate response time. Quake and Hexen II are POQS. For most other game servers, QStat makes just one request to retrieve all the server status information, including server rules and player status. The -P and -R options do not increase the number of requests to the server. Half-Life supports three different requests for information; general status, players, and server rules. Each requires a separate request packet, so a total of three are used to retrieve player and rules. Quake supports a number of control codes for special effects in player names. QStat normalizes the codes into the ASCII character set before display. The graphic codes are not translated except the orange brackets (hex 90, 10, 91, and 11) which are converted to '[' and ']'. Use the hex-player-names option -hpn to see the complete player name. POQS do not return version information. But some small amount of info can be gathered from the server rules. The noexit rule did not appear until version 1.01. The Quake II server rules include a "version" key that contains the id build number. Recent releases of QuakeWorld have a "*version" key in the server rules. Unreal servers include a "gamever" key in the server rules that contains the server version without the decimal point. Most other game servers include some kind of version info in the server rules. EXAMPLES The following is an example address file that queries a QuakeWorld master, several Hexen II servers, some POQS, and a few Quake II servers. QWM 192.246.40.12:27004 H2S 207.120.210.4 H2S 204.145.225.124 H2S 207.224.190.21 H2S 165.166.140.154 H2S 203.25.60.3 QS 207.25.198.110 QS 206.154.207.104 QS 205.246.42.31 QS 128.164.136.171 Q2S sm.iquest.net Q2S 209.39.134.5 Q2S 209.39.134.3 If the above text were in a file called QSERVER.TXT, then the servers could be queried by running: qstat -f QSERVER.TXT IMPLEMENTATION NOTES QStat sends packets to each host and waits for return packets. After some interval, another packet is sent to each host which has not yet responded. This is done several times before the host is considered non-responsive. QStat can wait for responses from up to 20 hosts at a time. For host lists longer than that, QStat checks more hosts as results are determined. The following applies only applies to POQS. If QStat exceeds the maximum number of retries when fetching server information, it will give up and try to move on to the next information. This means that some rules or player info may occasionally not appear. Player info may also be missing if a player drops out between getting the general server info and requesting the player info. If QStat times out on one rule request, no further rules can be fetched. This is a side-effect of the Quake protocol design. The number of available file descriptors limits the number of simultaneous servers that can be checked. QStat reuses file descriptors so it can never run out. The macro MAXFD in qstat.c determines how many file descriptors will be simultaneously opened. Raise or lower this value as needed. The default is 20 file descriptors. Operating systems which translate ICMP Bad Port (ICMP_PORT_UNREACHABLE) into a ECONNREFUSED will display some hosts as DOWN. These hosts are up and connected to the network, but there is no program on the port. Solaris 2.5 and Irix 5.3 correctly support ICMP_PORT_UNREACHABLE, but Solaris 2.4 does not. See page 442 of "Unix Network Programming" by Richard Stevens for a description of this ICMP behavior. Operating systems without correct ICMP behavior will just report hosts without Quake servers as non-responsive. Windows NT and Windows 95 don't seem to support this ICMP. For hosts with multiple IP addresses, QStat will only send packets to the first address returned from the name service. QStat supports Unreal version 2.15 or greater. BUGS PORTABILITY UNIX - QStat has been compiled and tested on Solaris 2.x, Irix 5.3/6.2/6.3/6.4, FreeBSD 2.2/3.0, BSDi, HP-UX 10.20/11.0, and various flavors of Linux. WINDOWS - The Windows version of QStat (win32/qstat.exe) runs on Windows 95 and Windows NT as a console application. On Windows 95 and NT 4.0, short-cuts can be used to set the arguments to qstat. On Windows NT 3.51, use a batch file. OS/2 - An OS/2 binary is no longer included. Try contacting Per Hammer for an OS/2 Warp binary. per@mindbend.demon.co.uk. VMS - The source includes a VMS patch from John Ross Hunt. This patch was tested on QStat 2.0b, but has not been tested on the current version. See COMPILE.txt for instructions. VERSION This is QStat version 2.4e. The QStat webpage is updated for each new version and contains links to Quake server listings and pages about the Quake and Unreal network protocols. The page can be found at http://www.qstat.org Quake, Quake II, QuakeWorld, and Quake III created by id Software. Hexen II, HexenWorld, and Heretic II created by Raven Software. Unreal created by Epic Games. Half-Life created by Valve Software. Sin created by Ritual Entertainment. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division was created by Monolith Productions Inc. Tribes and Tribes 2 created by Dynamix, Inc. BFRIS created by Aegis Simulation Technologies. Kingpin created by Xatrix Entertainment Inc. AUTHOR Steve Jankowski steve@qstat.org COPYRIGHT Copyright © 1996,1997,1998,1999 by Steve Jankowski Permission granted to use this software for any purpose you desire provided that existing copywrite notices are retained verbatim in all copies and derived works. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX A - Output Templates QStat output templates provide greater control of the appearance of server status information. The results of a server query can be organized, formatted, and wrapped within any other text. The most obvious use is to generate HTML for web pages. However, it could also generate custom output for redisplay within another tool. There are four output templates: TemplateOption server -Ts Output once for each server queried. (required) player -Tp Output once for each player. Must be used with -P. Invoked by the $PLAYERTEMPLATE variable. header -Th Output once before any servers are queried. trailer -Tt Output once after all servers are queried. The server template must be specified to enable template output. The other templates are optional. Each output template is a file containing text and QStat variables. The text is output unchanged by QStat, but the variables are processed and replaced by QStat. Most variables are replaced by values from a queried server. Some variables have hardcoded values, and some generate no output, but affect how the template is processed. Variables are grouped according to the templates where they can be used. General variables may be used in any of the templates. Server variables may be used in the server or player templates. Player variables may be used in the player template. Expression variables may only be used with the $IF and $IFNOT variables. If a variable is used where it doesn't make sense, it is ignored and generates no output. Variables are specified using one of several syntaxes: $VAR $VAR:OPTION $(VAR) $(VAR:OPTION) $(VAR:OPTION(ARGUMENT)) The syntax used does not affect the output. However using the $() syntax is somewhat more readable when the text gets cluttered. If you want the variable to be followed immediately by text, then the $() syntax must be used. Download considerations If you are generating output to be downloaded, then you'll want to make your output as small as possible. In the case of HTML, you can reduce the size of your pages by excluding stuff. *Remove unneeded spaces (indenting and newlines) *Remove unneeded end tags. The HTML spec says the following tags can always be left out: *When creating a table, "width" modifiers are only needed on one cell of a column. Put them on the cells of the first row of the table. Display options The display options -u, -ne, and -nf have no affect on template output. Use the $IF:UP, $IF:ISEMPTY, and $IF:ISFULL conditions to accomplish the same thing. General Variables $QSTATURL Output the web address of the QStat home page. $QSTATVERSION Output the version of QStat being run. $QSTATAUTHOR Output the name of the QStat programmer. $QSTATAUTHOREMAIL Output the email address of the QStat programmer. $HTML Enable HTML friendly string output. Server results may include characters that have special meaning in HTML. These are replaced by equivalent SGML entities. QStat converts '<', '>', and '&' to '<', '>', and '&'. Use this variable once in the header template. $CLEARNEWLINES Convert line feeds and carriage returns into spaces. Applies to all variables that output strings. Use this variable once in the header template. $IF Conditional output. If the variable option is "true," the template is output up to a matching $ENDIF variable. If the variable option is "false," the template is ignored until after a matching $ENDIF. See Conditional Options for a list of supported conditional options. $IFNOT Conditional output. Same as $IF, but the opposite sense. $ENDIF End conditional output. There must be one $ENDIF for each $IF and $IFNOT within a template. $NOW Output the current local time. $TOTALSERVERS The total number of servers to be queried. $TOTALUP The number of servers up and running. $TOTALNOTUP The number of servers either DOWN or TIMEOUT. $TOTALPLAYERS The number of players found on all servers. $\ Ignore the next newline. Not really a variable, but a way to curtail the output of extra newlines. Saves space in the output while the template remains readable. Must be the last thing on the line. $DEFAULTTYPE The full name of the default server type specified with -default. Server Variables $HOSTNAME Output the host name of the server if known, otherwise the server address as given to QStat. $SERVERNAME Output the name of the server. $PING The time in milli-seconds to get a response from the server. If the server is DOWN or TIMEOUT, nothing is output. $PLAYERS The number of players on the server. $MAXPLAYERS The maximum number of players allowed on the server. $MAP The name of the map being played. $GAME The name of the game being played. This is usually the name of the "mod" run by the server. The type of game being played. Only applies to Quake 3. $GAMETYPE Typical values are Free For All, Capture the Flag, and Arena. $RETRIES The number of retries needed to get the server status. This is a measure of packet loss. $IPADDR The IP address of the server. Does not include the port number. $PORT The port the server is running on. $ARG The server address as given to QStat. $TYPE Output one of the following depending on the server type: Quake Quake II Quake II Master QuakeWorld QuakeWorld Master Hexen II HexenWorld Unreal Half-Life Half-Life Master Sin Tribes Tribes Master Tribes 2 Tribes 2 Master Shogo: Mobile Armor Division Quake III: Arena Quake III Master BFRIS Kingpin Heretic II Soldier of Fortune Gamespy Master Gamespy Protocol If the server type is not known, nothing is output. $TYPESTRING The server's type string (see GAME OPTIONS table.) $RULE:name The value of a server rule. If the rule is not returned by the server, nothing is output. Must be used with the -R flag. $ALLRULES Output all the server rules in the format name=value separated by commas. Must be used with the -R flag. $PLAYERTEMPLATE Invoke the player template. The player template is output once for each player on the server. Must be used with the -P flag. Player Variables The player template is only invoked if $PLAYERTEMPLATE is used in the server template. The name of the player. If -htmlnames or $HTML is used, then HTML color font tags will be added for Quake 3 and $PLAYERNAME Tribes 2 player names. If $HTML is used but -nohtmlnames is set, then player names will not be colorized. $HTMLPLAYERNAME The name of the player with HTML color font tags. Only Quake 3 and Tribes 2 are supported. $FRAGS The number of frags scored. $DEATHS The number of times player has died. This value is only available for Descent 3 servers. $PLAYERPING The player's ping time to the server. This value is not available from Half-Life servers. $CONNECTTIME How long the player has been playing. This value is only available from Quake, QuakeWorld, Hexen II, and Half-Life servers. $SKIN The name of the player's skin texture. This value is not available from ?? servers. $MESH The name of the player's mesh (model). This value is only available from Unreal servers. $FACE The name of the player's face texture. This value is only available from Unreal version 405+ servers. $SHIRTCOLOR Color of the player's shirt. This value is only available from Quake, QuakeWorld, and Hexen II servers. $PANTSCOLOR Color of the player's pants. This value is not available from Quake, QuakeWorld, and Hexen II servers. $PLAYERIP The IP address of the player's computer. This value is only available from Quake and Hexen II servers. $TEAMNUM The player's team number. This value is only available from Unreal, Tribes, and Tribes 2 servers. $TEAMNAME The player's team name. This value is only available from Tribes and Tribes 2 servers. $TRIBETAG The player's tribe tag. This value is only available from Tribes 2 servers. $PACKETLOSS The player's packet loss. This value is only available from Tribes servers. $COLORNUMBERS Display $SHIRTCOLOR and $PANTSCOLOR as numbers. Equivalent to -ncn command-line option. No output. $COLORNAMES Display $SHIRTCOLOR and $PANTSCOLOR using color names. Equivalent to -cn command-line option. No output. Display $SHIRTCOLOR and $PANTSCOLOR using #rrggbb $COLORRGB format. Equivalent to -hc command-line option. No output. $TIMESECONDS Display $CONNECTTIME as number of seconds. Equivalent to -ts command-line option. No output. $TIMECLOCK Display $CONNECTTIME in clock format (DhDDmDDs). Equivalent to -tc command-line option. No output. $TIMESTOPWATCH Display $CONNECTTIME in stop-watch format (DD:DD:DD). Equivalent to -tsw command-line option. No output. Conditional Options These options maybe used with the $IF and $IFNOT variables. For example, to display player information, the following could be used in the server template: $(IF:PLAYERS)$(IF:FLAG(-P)) The server has $(PLAYERS) players: $(PLAYERTEMPLATE) $(ENDIF)$(ENDIF) The template between the $IF and $ENDIF variables will only be displayed if the server has one or more players and the -P flag was given to QStat. GAME True if the server is running a "mod." PLAYERS True if the server has one or more players. QUAKE True if the server is running Quake (the original). QUAKE2 True if the server is running Quake II. Q2MASTER True if the server is a Quake II master. QUAKEWORLD True if the server is running QuakeWorld. QWMASTER True if the server is a QuakeWorld master. HEXEN2 True if the server is running Hexen II. HEXENWORLD True if the server is running HexenWorld. UNREAL True if the server is running Unreal. HALFLIFE True if the server is running Half-Life. HLMASTER True if the server is a Half-Life master. SIN True if the server is running Sin. TRIBES True if the server is running Tribes. TRIBESMASTER True if the server is a Tribes master. TRIBES2 True if the server is running Tribes 2. TRIBES2MASTER True if the server is a Tribes 2 master. SHOGO True if the server is running Shogo. QUAKE3 True if the server is running Quake III. Q3MASTER True if the server is a Quake III master. BFRIS True if the server is running BFRIS. KINGPIN True if the server is running Kingpin. HERETIC2 True if the server is running Heretic II. SOLDIEROFFORTUNE True if the server is running Soldier of Fortune. DESCENT3 True if the server is running Descent 3. GAMESPYMASTER True if the server is a Gamespy Master. GAMESPYPROTOCOL True if the server is running a "Gamespy style" status protocol. RULE(name) True if the rule name is set on the server. FLAG(name) True if the flag name was used on the QStat command-line. The only flag names supported are: -H, -P, and -R. Any other flag name returns false. UP True if the server is up and running. DOWN True if the server is known to be not running. This is true if the server computer returns an ICMP indicating that nothing is running on the port. Only supported by some operating systems. TIMEOUT True if the server never responded to a status query. HOSTNOTFOUND True if the host name lookup failed. ISEMPTY True if the server has no players. ISMASTER True if this is a master server. ISFULL True if the server has the maximum players. ISTEAM True if the player is a team. Only available with Tribes and Tribes 2 servers. Only applies to the player template. ISBOT True if the player is a bot. Only available with Tribes 2 servers. Only applies to the player template. ISALIAS True if the player is using an alias. Only available with Tribes 2 servers. Only applies to the player template. TRIBETAG True if the player has a tribe tag. Only available with Tribes 2 servers. Only applies to the player template.