requesturlasgamefile?

[Admins]

These things only work in v6.
For the redirect-feature you still need to upload the files to the server (for file-modification-time-check) but the client will download them from a website.
With requesturlasgamefile() you can download a file from a webserver and treat it like it has been downloaded from the server. I've just seen that there is a bug though, normally it requires 4 parameters, will fix it in the next version.

The main reason for these functions is to take stress away from the server, e.g. it could be possible to download Graal.exe from the website instead from the game server so that not hundreds of people download a new Graal version at once and slow down the server.

[Darklux]

Originally Posted by Stefan

These things only work in v6.
For the redirect-feature you still need to upload the files to the server (for file-modification-time-check) but the client will download them from a website.
With requesturlasgamefile() you can download a file from a webserver and treat it like it has been downloaded from the server. I've just seen that there is a bug though, normally it requires 4 parameters, will fix it in the next version.

Uploading the file anyways is a bit unhandy, could a md5 hash be attached to the command?

[12171217]

Originally Posted by Stefan

These things only work in v6.
For the redirect-feature you still need to upload the files to the server (for file-modification-time-check) but the client will download them from a website.
With requesturlasgamefile() you can download a file from a webserver and treat it like it has been downloaded from the server. I've just seen that there is a bug though, normally it requires 4 parameters, will fix it in the next version.

The main reason for these functions is to take stress away from the server, e.g. it could be possible to download Graal.exe from the website instead from the game server so that not hundreds of people download a new Graal version at once and slow down the server.

Thanks. How about savestring? Can I use that to save an image on the client?

[coreys]

Originally Posted by 12171217

Thanks. How about savestring? Can I use that to save an image on the client?

I wouldn't think so, since it will be saving it as ASCII data instead of binary data (I'm pretty sure).

[Loriel]

Originally Posted by coreys

I wouldn't think so, since it will be saving it as ASCII data instead of binary data (I'm pretty sure).

What is the difference? \n?

[coreys]

Originally Posted by Loriel

What is the difference? \n?

I guess depends on how it chooses to encode the text, but it seems it works.