Feature Request Allow Sending/Handling custom data when calling NetworkStreamReceiveSystem.Connect

Hello Unity Team,

it will be very useful to allow custom data to be sent when calling NetworkStreamReceiveSystem.Connect and give the server the ability to access that data and decide whether the client is allowed to connect or not.

at the moment I give each NetworkStreamConnection a countdown in which it identifies itself by sending a secret key (assigned/sent to each game participant when the matchmaker completes).

are you planning to add this features to the NetCode package ?

Thank you!

 

I do something similar by using a RPCs to handshake and finally add the NetworkStreamInGame component. Does that not work for you or you think this is bad approach?

 

this is exactly what i am doing but i think this is a bad approach, i prefer to allow clients to connect using a per client security key instead of allowing all clients to connect with a public ip and port and have unrestricted access to RPCs.

Knowing that RPCs are a bit vulnerable, a corrupted client can actually break the server by sending a large number of RPCs per frame.