I'm not good with computers

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Jun 10 2015, 1:26 pm (Edited on Jun 10 2015, 1:58 pm)
(See the best response by Rotem12.)
Is there a simple way to check if there's any BYOND game running over an IP:PORT with other languages, like PHP or Python?

https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation13.org/blob/master/ getserverdata.php
That was the only resource I could find about it and it is next level stuff for me.
Jun 10 2015, 2:01 pm
Best response
You can either ping an ip or simply open a tcp client.

C#:
        public static bool CheckConnection(string _HostURI, int _PortNumber)
        {
            try
            {
                TcpClient client = new TcpClient(_HostURI, _PortNumber);
                return true;
            }
            catch
            {
                return false;
            }
        }


I'm not exactly sure what's that php page is supposed to do but if you're only interested in checking if a game is running over a certain IP:PORT simply getting a connection without any errors would do.

Knowing this, the part marked as "/* --- Create a socket and connect it to the server --- */" is most likely containing what you seek in php.

Python is probably similar too.