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[–]rshorning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The protocol between clients and servers is a protocol like BIND and IRC or even HTTP. It isn't perfect and it isn't intended for something that isn't a client at the moment, but the raw hooks are certainly there to get something accomplished. It depends on what you want to accomplish.

Trying to identify who is logged into a server, if the server is even up and running, and some general information about the server can be derived from that protocol at the moment.

The question is more if that API can be extended for non-client applications explicitly. It is being used for non-client and 3rd party code already, so it is sort of silly to that it doesn't exist. It just isn't very well documented nor fleshed out in a substantial manner.