View Issue Details
| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0003261 | The Dark Mod | TDM Installer | public | 01.11.2012 15:17 | 15.05.2013 11:34 |
| Reporter | tels | Assigned To | tels | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | normal | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | SVN | ||||
| Target Version | TDM 2.00 | Fixed in Version | TDM 2.00 | ||
| Summary | 0003261: Updater and in-game downloader choke on some HTTP responses | ||||
| Description | The updater and the in-game downloader only handle 200 OK responses, and seem to treat anything else as an error. This means when the server sends a code like 301, 302, 303, 307 or 308, the new URL is not followed, instead the download is either aborted, or handled incorrectly (by saving the accompaning HTML code as f.i. tdm_mirrors.txt and then not being able to parse it). Inaddition, if the server sends a 404 (not found), the client might choose the saem server again (if there are f.i. only 2 download mirrors for one file, there is a 50% chance this happens). This can cause "chains" of 404 to hit one server, e.g. the client tries multiple times to download the same file from the same server. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Change the return code on a server to 30X (I can setup a "permanent URL" tha always devilvers one of these for testing purposes if that helps) and watch the download fail. This is important if you want f.i. temp. redirect all traffic to a new server. | ||||
| Additional Information | Any 301, 302, 303, 307 and 308 should result in the client just going to the new URL (we can for now ignore temporarily or not temporarily and just tread it always as temporarily). Any 404 should result in that server not being choosen again until you start TDM or the updater anew (e.g. cache this response during run-time for this URL and don't try it again). | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Both the ingame downloader and the updater now support redirects via curl, revision 0005792. The in-game downloader does not suffer from the 404 issue, because it builds a list of the given URLs and then tries them all only once in a specific order. The 404 issue can still happen for the updater, but its a minor issue - I'll let someone else deal with this. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01.11.2012 15:17 | tels | New Issue | |
| 15.05.2013 09:03 | tels | Relationship added | related to 0003417 |
| 15.05.2013 09:25 | tels | Assigned To | => tels |
| 15.05.2013 09:25 | tels | Status | new => assigned |
| 15.05.2013 09:25 | tels | Product Version | => SVN |
| 15.05.2013 09:25 | tels | Target Version | => TDM 2.00 |
| 15.05.2013 11:34 | tels | Note Added: 0005468 | |
| 15.05.2013 11:34 | tels | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 15.05.2013 11:34 | tels | Fixed in Version | => TDM 2.00 |
| 15.05.2013 11:34 | tels | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 19.05.2021 05:34 | stgatilov | Category | TDM Updater => TDM Installer |
