[Dr. McKay]

Originally Posted by SephirothSG -snip-

Turning in into an auth string for comparison is unnecessary and somewhat expensive, just use GetSteamAccountID and compare. Passing false as the second parameter to GetSteamAccountID should probably allow it to find unauthenticated users with that auth ID.

[Bubka3]

Can Steamworks expose some natives to get group status of clients?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Bubka3 Can Steamworks expose some natives to get group status of clients?

The Steamworks API for game servers that this extension uses only has access to a flawed check for that (the same one that SteamTools uses).

It doesn't actually check group membership, but rather if a user has a "relationship" with a group, which includes declining invitation to it.

[Bubka3]

Originally Posted by psychonic The Steamworks API for game servers that this extension uses only has access to a flawed check for that (the same one that SteamTools uses). It doesn't actually check group membership, but rather if a user has a "relationship" with a group, which includes declining invitation to it.

Well the check is the lesser of two evils. You could use HTTP + XML but that will get messy quick.

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Bubka3 Well the check is the lesser of two evils. You could use HTTP + XML but that will get messy quick.

It's not an option if you want accurate results. Also, no XML is needed if you use the Steam Web API.

You can get a list of a user's group in keyvalues format pretty easily,
https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetUserGroupList/v1?steamid=<steamid64>&key=<key>&format=vdf

[Bubka3]

Originally Posted by psychonic It's not an option if you want accurate results. Also, no XML is needed if you use the Steam Web API. You can get a list of a user's group in keyvalues format pretty easily, https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamUser/GetUserGroupList/v1?steamid=<steamid64>&key=<key>&format=vdf

If the check is so bad then why did you (make a plugin that) use it? Especially on a plugin which grants admin permissions. I'm referring to this.

With that API, what type of rate limiting is going on?

[psychonic]

Originally Posted by Bubka3 If the check is so bad then why did you (make a plugin that) use it? Especially on a plugin which grants admin permissions. I'm referring to this.

I made that plugin long before the issues were known and haven't supported it in years anyway.

Originally Posted by Bubka3 With that API, what type of rate limiting is going on?

You would have to ask Valve.

[rswallen]

Originally Posted by Bubka3 With that API, what type of rate limiting is going on?

If you're referring to the Steam Web APIs, "one hundred thousand (100,000) calls to the Steam Web API per day"

[sheo]

Steam Web API does not work with private profiles, so this is not a solution

[Bubka3]

So it seems at this point I rather have the flawed check.