C>S 0x18 SID_REGISTRY

Transport Layer:	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Application Layer:	Battle.net v1 TCP Messages (SID)
Message Id:	`0x18`
Message Name:	`SID_REGISTRY`
Direction:	Client to Server
Options:	Deprecated
Used By:	Starcraft Original
Message Format: ^{(does not include protocol header)}	`(UINT32) Cookie (STRING) Key Value`

Remarks

Returns the requested registry value from S>C 0x18 SID_REGISTRY.

Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Edited: Friday, November 5, 2021 Anonymous

Comments

Caaaaarrrrlll
Sun Aug 23, 2009 1:46pm UTC

You would think Blizzard would actually have the Key Value be VOID, not STRING. Shame I cannot test that to see if it really is a VOID, because Battle.net does not use this anymore.

Allowing access to the Windows registry without checking what is requested first is always a security risk, even if the data being requested is not changed. Does anyone know what Battle.net used to use this for? What values (paths and keys) it told the client to send the value of?

xboi209
Fri Nov 5, 2021 1:54am UTC

Refer to my comment at https://bnetdocs.org/packet/388#comments to learn more about why this packet existed.