I think you'd be better of with a metamod (or whatever Alfred is working on for HL2 is named) plugin. When someone connects you send their IP to your download server. Your DL server can then open up that IP for downloading. When the user quits, or the HL server crashes, you block the IP again.
This method is simple, effective, and requires no special action from the user. Jeroen "ShadowLord" Bogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew A. Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 03:43 Subject: [hlds_apps] Re: Half-life 2 Server feature request > He makes a very good point here. > > As server companies, how do we stop non-customers from leaching off of our > redirect sites? Perhaps as part of the redirect, include a md5 hash of > the filename and some secret key that both hlds and the target redirect > CGI know of? This key would ideally be part of the startup command line > of hlds, so that a customer can not simply take that key and publicly post > it. > > e.g. > hlds -game cstrike [...] -redirectkey asdf123 > > When loading a map, a redirect should point to: > http://company.redirect.server/dl.cgi?fn=de_dust.bsp&hash=1b3f23b1934b98a... > > Where hash is some combination of the filename and the redirect key, gone > through md5_base64? > > If a download redirect is already in HL2, I think that this is a very real > issue that should be dealt with before the first release, as bandwidth > leaches can be a very serious problem. > > This is an informal RFQ. :) > > Thanks. > > --- > Andrew A. Chen > Divo Networks > > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, David Sharpe wrote: > > > Do you mean for maps and such? > > If so then yeah i agree that would be great, can use someone elses bandwidth > > as a cost saver, *evil grin* > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven > > > Hartland > > > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:53 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [hlds_linux] Half-life 2 Server feature request > > > > > > > > > No idea how this is progressing but... If it could include > > > download redirect like the UT engine does as this is great for > > > removing load from games servers off to servers specifically > > > designed for it. HTTP and FTP as well if possible with the > > > support for multiple sites. e.g. > > > set redirectenable 1 > > > set redirect1 http://somehost/somepath/ > > > set redirect2 http://somehost/somepath/ > > > set redirect3 http://somehost/somepath/ > > > > > > You might already have this in there but just thought I'd ask :P > > > > > > Steve / K > _______________________________________________ > hlds_apps mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_apps > > _______________________________________________ hlds_apps mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_apps
