I am curreently devloping a Gnutella servant and I have been unable to find anyones description of how to receive a list of recent servants from the connect1.gnutellanet.com group of host cache servers.

It is understandable that it is not widely published what the protocol is to connect to these, though I would find it useful to know.

Is it a http request, or another form of request, similar to sending a query and receiving a query response?

General help or a link would be very much appreciated.