Just as the topic says.. does anyone know how to check if a Soldat server is online or not?

I'm wanting to have a "game server status" section on my site, and I've got it working for Quake II.. I just need to get it going for Soldat.

For Quake II (doing this all in PHP btw), I send "ÿÿÿÿinfo 34" to the server, and when I get a reply that has a string length of >= 5, I then say that the server is online..

For Soldat.. I've just done a little bit of tinkering around, and here's what I've found out so far, about what'll send me a reply back (which is needed, if I'm to do this via UDP)..

Sending "d" the server replies back with "h20ˬ" and the server console reports "Registering server @ 192.168.0.95" when I do that.. (the server is at 192.168.0.23 btw, while my LAN IP is 192.168.0.95).

Sending "i" (as in "ivy" or such), I get a reply back "j" (as in "jack")..

Should I just use one of these, or is there a better way to do it? Like maybe checking the admin server, via TCP?

... you shouldnt be sending raw packets to the server, obviously these packets are tellings the server to do stuff. not recommended.

but anyways, to check if a server is online, wouldn't you just check to see if the connection to it succeeded?