UO::SendPacket() (POL 097 2008-02-26)

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While it is impossible to Pack() a packet object, packet's data can be saved as string and sent later using UO::SendPacket().

The problem, so it seems, is that this functions cannot handle packets correctly after their length exceeds 2000 bytes. That is enough for most cases, but sometimes packet is larger, and as a result, client receives corrupted data.

If you dare, you can test this using the following code. It contains a page of spawn region information gump, so it is not harmful. If you do test, do first .startlog (every packet is logged into /log/-acctname-.log), and afterwards, .stoplog, so you can see the problem yourself. On and after the line that begins "07d0:" there are nothing but zeros, though there should. The packet's size, however, remains correct.

I split the packet string to multiple lines so the layout won't broke: you should trim it back to just one line before testing: var text := "[string]";.

Of course any other string-formated packet sized over 2000 bytes should give the same result. They are just a pain to filter manually, so I thought I could as well lend my own test string.