S>C 0x0B SID_GETCHANNELLIST

Transport Layer:	Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Application Layer:	Battle.net v1 TCP Messages (SID)
Message Id:	`0x0B`
Message Name:	`SID_GETCHANNELLIST`
Direction:	Server to Client
Used By:	Starcraft Original, Starcraft Broodwar Starcraft Shareware, Starcraft Japanese Diablo Retail, Diablo Shareware Diablo II, Diablo II Lord of Destruction Warcraft II BNE, Warcraft III Reign of Chaos Warcraft III The Frozen Throne
Message Format: ^{(does not include protocol header)}	`(STRING) [] Channel names`

Remarks

Contains a list of available channels, each terminated by a null byte. The last item should be empty (just a null byte), indicating the end of the list.

For some reason, Diablo II adds extra data to the channel list (as can be seen in game), and older clients list blocked channels, such as Warez and Backstage.

Thursday, July 15, 2010 | Edited: Thursday, October 15, 2020 Anonymous

Comments

Leaky
Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:40pm UTC

the channel list is seperated by a 0x0D 0x00

Caaaaarrrrlll
Mon Oct 5, 2009 1:30pm UTC

Actually, no it's <strong>not</strong> separated by 0x0D 0x00.

It is separated by null-terminators (0x00). You should keep reading until you come across an empty string, or a double 0x00. Of course, you can always keep reading until you reach the end of the packet length, then removing the last channel (if empty), which works also.