You can monitor whatever you want, there's no difference between HTTP and
HTTPS.
It is silly to use HTTPS for downloading maps/sounds and other custom
resources required for a game. You don't need any extra "privacy" and
does
not "protect our users". There's no advantage. You should protect your
fast
download against bandwidth stealing, but that's a different story and has
nothing to do with HTTP or HTTPS.
You don't "have to buy a 50+ license" to test this. Start a game server,
load a custom map and set sv_downloadurl to
"https://msp.f-secure.com/web-test/common/test.html?"; url (don't forget
the
last ? character, otherwise you'll get a 404 error). Then connect to
server
using a client that does not have the map and see if it tries to download
it. Have the console enabled to see the "downloading" messages (maybe
developer variable must be 1). Also check the my_custom_map.bsp
downloaded
file, should be a HTTP page.
Anyway, it seems that it works. At least in CS:GO, but then the client
crashes because the downloaded map is invalid (is a HTML page).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cameron
Munroe
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 11:53 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Https for fastdl
The idea about HTTPS is that there is a growing push to monitor and harm
traffic on the internet. A fix for this is https, and as stated before:
an extreme explanation might be: it could help against tampering ...
if you have an ISP that do not wants you to play they could just
corrupt
each and every fast download tries... with https istead that could
be
very hard (in both detecting the typo of file being downloaded and
breaking into an ssl stream corrupting it)
Nowadays, expecially in countries where "privacy" is just a word
on a
dictionary, everything should be run within encrypted tunnels
This is something that modern day china, and other countries are pushing
towards. Im not trying to be illegal, but rather make it so that its
harder to track users downloading files off my fastdl.
We should all be pushing to increase https usage in this modern day
world to not only protect our users, but also to hide the traffics full
intent to outside eyes.
The main reason for my blow up below is the fact that I'm so tired of
responses that simply do not help the thread progress. Its common on
here, and it is bloody annoying. In any case I understand your point
about the extra cost and lowering of speed by switching to https, but I
simply want to know if it would be possible at all to do.
On 10/5/2012 2:45 PM, Bruno Garcia wrote:
I'm not trying to criticize your thread or your means to use the Fast
download functionality.
I'm simple stating that you would get a better result for less cost.
I'm sorry if it was mis intended in that way.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Cameron Munroe
<[email protected]>wrote:
This is why I hate this thread, there is never any good answers just
criticism. The question is fully legitimate as since your an idiot and
don't understand that testing is sorta hard considering you have to buy
a
50+ license.
As I stated to the other guy, if you have nothing productive to say
don't
bloody fucking say it.
God how hard is that, to keep your mouth shut.
On 10/5/2012 2:31 PM, Ulrich Block wrote:
Am 05.10.2012 23:26, schrieb Cameron Munroe:
Maybe by your opinion. Now if you have nothing "productive" to state
on
whether it works or not then stop replying as I already understand
the
below and that it has a cost.
So much time and posts have past... During that period try and error
would have been much faster
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