[Archive] Sending patches to players
[Archive] Sending patches to players
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Quote: 18 hours ago, Skarn said:Why should that be safer? Just don't accept every client without the correct version/patch.
Launcher is a safer way though.
rektbyfaith
08-23-2016, 05:38 AM #11Archived author: Kaev • Posted: 2016-08-23T05:38:52+00:00
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Quote: 18 hours ago, Skarn said:Why should that be safer? Just don't accept every client without the correct version/patch.
Launcher is a safer way though.
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Because you can write it for example in C++ and the majority of people won't be able to see your code, at least. Also with launcher while WoW.exe is off, you can manage MPQs the way you want;
rektbyfaith
08-23-2016, 06:07 AM #12Archived author: Skarn • Posted: 2016-08-23T06:07:31+00:00
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Because you can write it for example in C++ and the majority of people won't be able to see your code, at least. Also with launcher while WoW.exe is off, you can manage MPQs the way you want;
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I don't understand what they mean by patchDownloadURL. Why is it a .txt file?
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 10:19 AM #13Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-27T10:19:40+00:00
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I don't understand what they mean by patchDownloadURL. Why is it a .txt file?
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Quote: 3 minutes ago, Смердокрыл said:It must be a .txt file uploaded somewhere that contains patch list along with hashes. It allows launcher to check if you are up to date or not.
I don't understand what they mean by patchDownloadURL. Why is it a .txt file?
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 10:22 AM #14Archived author: Skarn • Posted: 2016-08-27T10:22:57+00:00
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Quote: 3 minutes ago, Смердокрыл said:It must be a .txt file uploaded somewhere that contains patch list along with hashes. It allows launcher to check if you are up to date or not.
I don't understand what they mean by patchDownloadURL. Why is it a .txt file?
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Exactly what Skarn said - it points to a file that tells the launcher what files to download, where to download them from and provides the checksums so the launcher can see if anyone has tampered with your files.
The second download link on the page is a tool that generates this file for you; you just need to host it somewhere and point your launcher to that location.
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 10:45 AM #15Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-27T10:45:45+00:00
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Exactly what Skarn said - it points to a file that tells the launcher what files to download, where to download them from and provides the checksums so the launcher can see if anyone has tampered with your files.
The second download link on the page is a tool that generates this file for you; you just need to host it somewhere and point your launcher to that location.
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Ah, ok, thanks.
If anyone is interested: the way to get direct links from google drive works perfectly.
Quote: On 21.08.2016 at 7:25 PM, barncastle said:
It looks that way, seems some people have figured out the URL structure http://www.labnol.org/internet/direct-li...ive/28356/. I don't use Google Drive so can't test if this still works still...
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 12:02 PM #16Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-27T12:02:55+00:00
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Ah, ok, thanks.
If anyone is interested: the way to get direct links from google drive works perfectly.
Quote: On 21.08.2016 at 7:25 PM, barncastle said:
It looks that way, seems some people have figured out the URL structure http://www.labnol.org/internet/direct-li...ive/28356/. I don't use Google Drive so can't test if this still works still...
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Hey, I'm wondering: would it be possible to host a server that way? Place the mysql database in some online storage and somehow give the direct links to the server iself.
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 01:37 PM #17Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-27T13:37:01+00:00
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Hey, I'm wondering: would it be possible to host a server that way? Place the mysql database in some online storage and somehow give the direct links to the server iself.
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That would be neigh impossible to do unfortunately, you're better off either hosting a cloud database (Azure, AWS...) or running a MySQL server on your own infrastructure.
rektbyfaith
08-27-2016, 02:29 PM #18Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-27T14:29:30+00:00
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That would be neigh impossible to do unfortunately, you're better off either hosting a cloud database (Azure, AWS...) or running a MySQL server on your own infrastructure.
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I have a problem: I uploaded all the patches and patch.txt to my google drive, done all the linking stuff, but whenever my launcher downloads a patch, the patch is always 36 kb and can't be opened by MPQ editor.
rektbyfaith
08-29-2016, 09:38 AM #19Archived author: Смердокрыл • Posted: 2016-08-29T09:38:51+00:00
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I have a problem: I uploaded all the patches and patch.txt to my google drive, done all the linking stuff, but whenever my launcher downloads a patch, the patch is always 36 kb and can't be opened by MPQ editor.
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I'll take a look if you want to send me the URL of the patch.txt file
rektbyfaith
08-29-2016, 10:08 AM #20Archived author: barncastle • Posted: 2016-08-29T10:08:24+00:00
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I'll take a look if you want to send me the URL of the patch.txt file
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