easy kag:// redirects in BBS/etc

So in my last thread here, I showed a way to create URLs which join a (currently Windows-only) client to the server which someone is playing on along with the code that can be used to do so, including the API calls

This leaves a simple but well-defined gap in features - there isn't a way to easily create a http:// URL which will take someone to a specified server in a similar fashion! There are some situations, like on this forum software, where kag:// and other arbitrary application URIs don't work. For this, I created the following:

https://poc.kag2d.com/joinserver/ip/67.23.118.185/port/50314

Which is actually rewritten to:
https://poc.kag2d.com/joinserver/joinserver.php?IPAddress=67.23.118.185&port=50314

There are few situations where this is probably helpful, but around these forums is one of them.

Here's the stupidly simple php source:
https://poc.kag2d.com/joinserver/joinserver.phps

And the .htaccess file I have which does this rewrite:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/joinserver/ip/[0-9\.:]+/port/[0-9]+
RewriteRule ^joinserver/ip/([0-9\.]+)/port/([0-9]+) joinserver/joinserver.php?IPAddress=$1&port=$2

 

Would it be possible to add passwords to this? :)

 

I should work on all windows clients as long as you've KAG installed correctly afaik. (fresh install within last 12 months)