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Minecraft Server Management Protocol

Minecraft Server Management Protocol is a server management API (JSON-RPC over WebSocket) for dedicated servers.

The API is disabled by default and can be enabled in the server.properties file. A server-specific secret can be configured using the management-server-secret property. Clients must authenticate to access the API by providing this secret in one of two ways:

The API is accessible at ws://<management-server-host>:<management-server-port> when enabled. It uses the WebSocket protocol and adheres to JSON-RPC 2.0 specification.

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