I just visited the UA and saw the uz Redirection Service link when an idea came to mind. I'm not sure why I hadn't thought of this before.
To get around the limitation that UT doesn't allow downloading of uz files through redirects here's a possible workaround:
- Load a URL with some parameter values through Unrealscript to trigger some PHP code.
- PHP code reads parameters to decide what files to move from local site or distant site to a public-accessible directory.
- UT server waits a bit (or is there some way of doing a callback?) and then restarts to collect the new uz files on the public directory.
Do you think this would work ?
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Last edited by Azura : 24th August, 2012 at 02:22 AM.
He means a way of doing multiple redirects but the hard work is done by a website script.
Yeah, it will work but you have to code the wait/retry into the uscript side and even then some of it is built into the native code so it was very much a hit-n-miss thing for us trying to make it work. If you don't code in waiting it feeds all kinds of errors into the log. We ran directly into this trying to get the UT server to wait on a php DB return when working on the UTP service. Even if you can do this it's still messy and we never could get all the errors cleared.
He means a way of doing multiple redirects but the hard work is done by a website script.
Exact. Multiple redirects melded into one as was the original intention on the redirect service at UA. Including an added twist that would allow hosting compressed content with minimal space provided that uz files can be downloaded and cached through PHP from elsewhere.
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Yeah, it will work but you have to code the wait/retry into the uscript side and even then some of it is built into the native code so it was very much a hit-n-miss thing for us trying to make it work. If you don't code in waiting it feeds all kinds of errors into the log. We ran directly into this trying to get the UT server to wait on a php DB return when working on the UTP service. Even if you can do this it's still messy and we never could get all the errors cleared.
Yes, the snag is that unrealscript doesn't support threads explicitely. Do you see a way of doing a callback ? In other words send information from the web site to the UT server after the initial request. That would avoid having the server to wait.
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How to feck up a perfectly good game:
UT (1999) = UnbelievableGameSoCoolIMustHelpBringNewPlayers Tournament
UT (2008) = Unreal ThrustMyPrivatePartsInYourFaceBish
And that's probably why UTIII was a relative flop. New game, same sh*thead players ^^.
Last edited by Azura : 25th August, 2012 at 12:28 AM.
Yeah, it can be done but in the meantime you get floods of errors to the server log until it gets a return. This originates from the native side code so perhaps a private chat with someone like wormbo could get you closer to a clean solution. It's certainly doable though because we did it but never got it 'right'.
Can't you just make a server-side mod that has multiple redirect entries and it automatically checks each one for the file if it doesn't find it? (Like Demo manager does).
Forgive me if that's exactly what you are describing, the PHP thing throws me off, not all that keen on that stuff Would be a very handy thing to have though. I always wondered why there are so many random mods nobody will ever use out there, and obvious useful things like this were never made
re: errors to ucc.log.. why not just suppress those errors if they don't really effect the Server/Game/Mod in any other way apart from some Verbose .. "Opps I don't know what just happened".. Accessed none .. etc
An idea for a smart redirect
Would be a very handy thing to have though. I always wondered why there are so many random mods nobody will ever use out there, and obvious useful things like this were never made 
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