full fledged proxy library on top of node-minecraft-protocol

[rom1504]

this is not really a nmp issue as it would not be done from there, but this issue is meant to be a central place to discuss about bigger proxies on top of nmp

https://github.com/PrismarineJS/node-minecraft-protocol/tree/master/examples/proxy is a simple proxy implementation.
It can be used to :

• do a server side proxy : provide more feature to a server or multiple servers
• do a client side proxy : provide more feature to a client

Several people did projects like this but none did a library, I believe this would be useful for a lot of people.
I'm putting this as "high priority" (for PrismarineJS, not for node-minecraft-protocol) and adding it in the list of Prismarine big projects.

example of users :

• https://github.com/bangbang93/minecraft-proxy
• https://github.com/themoonisacheese/2bored2wait

[rom1504]

I know some people made some nice server side proxy with nmp but I can't find them.
If you can, please post here :)

[rom1504]

ideas of features that would be interesting in a proxy lib :

low level (for performance) :

• transparent forwarding (passing buffer from server to client without decoding)
• partial decoding (only decode some part of the packet, for instance just read the packet type)

high level (features) :

• parsing the chunks with pchunk and pworld and making a web viewer with that (see Implement a prismarine-world web visualizer prismarine-world#17)
• plugin system to enable some transformation on packets

[rom1504]

https://github.com/darcros/node-minecraft-proxy someone built this, expanding on this would be useful

[837951602]

Do this proxy support

• Connection between different version
• Holdon on a server
  ?

[rom1504]

This is an issue discussing something that doesn't exist yet. However yes the example proxy can do this.

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[rom1504]

https://github.com/wvffle/minecraft-packet-debugger

[rom1504]

https://github.com/Heath123/pakkit

[rom1504]

Plan :

1. create a http://github.com/PrismarineJS/prismarine-proxy (or a better name ?)
2. add simple examples and link to bigger one there
3. start thinking what could be good to put as a lib there

[rom1504]

https://github.com/PrismarineJS/prismarine-proxy exists

Next is for everyone to add examples and open issues for interesting things to do

[rom1504]

https://github.com/Rob9315/2b2tproxy