[CF-Devel] server problems

[Michael Toennies]

ct: Re: [CF-Devel] server problems
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      On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Michael Toennies wrote:
     
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      > I notice 2 server problems
     
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      > A minor one is, that the server sometimes send the client the face #0 as
     
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      > used face.
     
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      > This face is a dummy on server side (bug.111.png) which is not used from
     
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      > client.
     
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       Are you saying that the server is sending face 0 in terms of png data,
     
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      or that the server is sending face 0 as the face to use for something?
     
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       If the later case, what something?  If the map, that is perfectly valid
     
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      (read the protocol doc) - that means to clear the face from being used
     
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      on that layer of the map.
     
     
I don't know why, but the server sends sometimes the a face 0, and then the
client
ask for it. Perhaps a map releated bug.


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      > The other point is, that i had removed the face cmd from the sdl client,
     
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      > i always  send PNG|CACHE to him. Well sometimes, when i start the server
     
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      > (different archfiles/pngfiles) he send the face cmd instead of
     
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      face1 cmd.
     
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      > It seems the server skips the checksum part as a side effect.
     
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       the facemd does not include a checksum.
     
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       The server will alway use the face1 cmd if the client is new enough.
     
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      This also presumes the server is new enough (at least 0.96.0).  The
     
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      code snippet is:
     
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             if (ns->sc_version >= 1026)
     
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                  strcpy((char*)sl.buf, "face1 ");
     
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              else
     
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                  strcpy((char*)sl.buf, "face ");
     
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       So it seems that the likely case is that either the client is not
     
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      not providing right sc_version to the server, or you are playing
     
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      on an old server (from the metaserver list, only voldsboks.pvv.org
     
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      is that old)
     
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nope, the client do all correct. Most times i got a face1 cmd, but in some
ways,
i start the server and the client gets a face1 cmd. I can't see, this is
invoked by
the client.