C>S 0x06 SID_STARTVERSIONING

Transport Layer:Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Application Layer:Battle.net v1 TCP Messages (SID)
Message Id:0x06
Message Name:SID_STARTVERSIONING
Direction:Client to Server
Used By:Starcraft Shareware, Starcraft Japanese
Diablo Retail, Diablo Shareware
Warcraft II BNE
Message Format:
(does not include protocol header)
(UINT32) Platform code
(UINT32) Product code
(UINT32) Version byte
(UINT32) Unknown (0) 

Remarks

This message is sent to the server to start the process of checking the game files. This message is part of the old check revision process. Functionality is now incorporated into C>S 0x50 SID_AUTH_INFO.

Field descriptions:

This message triggers the initial SID_PING from the server prior to its own reply.

| Edited: Anonymous

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