[Release]Http Download Helper

[Grim]

yep. great useful stuff. About against the classic download of maps in the loading section, this question is a few seconds.
you will never miss Fér Start again! (y)

[d3nd3]

Thanks grim.
Version 1.2 is out.
Fixed a bug that meant it would not launch if your sof lived in path with spaces.
Made the windows more hidden
Provide command line options sof in .cmd file

Thanks Acadie and chin for feedback.

[Trekker]

Works great

No issues unzipping to SoF from third internal drive maintaining paths (E:\downloads to C:\Users\MCNE\Raven\SOF PLATINUM\)
I get that path because I still install SoF manually then add the original SoFplus client, both on Windows 7 and Windows 10, stop complaining "you cannot install SoF on 7 and 10 using the "CD""

SoF_HTTP.cmd shortcut on Desktop launches SoF (silently)

"map messages" print before map is downloaded it appears, nice trick specially when map has not been uploaded to github yet ;)

DM/COMPLEX23 Map made by [Ç#]JÙLìˆN!
Downloading : dm/complex23beta.zip

If map is available on github, we get:
Downloading : dm/chaos_fluorine_1.zip

If map is not available on github, we get:
Downloading : dm/complex23beta.zip
Downloading maps/dm/complex23beta.bsp <== no colorful Font; Meaning we are on slow download

Spoiler:

------------------------------------
HTTP Downloader v1.2 Loaded
execing menus/player.cfg
execing menus/applyskin.cfg
pinging broadcast...
.... finding LAN servers ....
.... finding favorite servers ....
.... finding GameSpy servers ....
............... print
\pickupinfo\0\gamedate\Jun 14 2001\gamename\base\weap
onarena\0\protocol\33\skill\2\timelimit\16\sv_suicidepenalty\2\maxspectators\8\maxclients\16\mapname\dm/chaos_fluorine_1\g_movescale\1.0\fraglimit\0\deathmatch\1\ctf_loops\10\control_limit\800\control_bonus\3\cheats\0\hostname\ChAoS
Unlimited Fire DM Fiber\version\1.07fx86F\dmflags\47116\sv_violence\32\user\./user-server-dm\
Setting default passwords
Connecting to ...............:20000...
dm/chaos_fluorine_1
Downloading : dm/chaos_fluorine_1.zip
Downloading maps/dm/chaos_fluorine_1.eal
File not found.
Downloading strip/menu_maps/dm/chaos_fluorine_1.sp
File not found.
Downloading bot/wpfiles/maps/dm/chaos_fluorine_1.wrs
File not found.
chin has entered the game!



(Re)connecting to a server: 210 ms
Loading map: 16.301 sec

Overall loading time: 16.511 sec
execing menus/player.cfg
execing menus/applyskin.cfg
pinging broadcast...
.... finding LAN servers ....
.... finding favorite servers ....
.... finding GameSpy servers ....
............... print
\pickupinfo\0\gamedate\Jun 14 2001\gamename\base\
weaponarena\0\protocol\33\skill\2\timelimit\20\sv_suicidepenalty\2\maxspectators\16\maxclients\16\mapname\dm/complex23beta\g_movescale\1.0\fraglimit\0\deathmatch\4\ctf_loops\10\control_limit\800\control_bonus\1\cheats\0\hostname\[KK] -
[CTF] Fiber Rapture's House\version\1.07fx86F\dmflags\64268\sv_violence\32\user\./user-server-2\
0 5 "[KK]RÀÞTú®É"
Setting default passwords
Connecting to ...............:28912...
DM/COMPLEX23 Map made by [Ç#]JÙLìˆN!
Downloading : dm/complex23beta.zip <== some AI working in the background here, fresh beta map not on github but expected to be in .zip which is normal but a message would be nice, (we don't have this map, go grab a drink ...)
Downloading maps/dm/complex23beta.bsp
.........................................................10%
.........................................................20%
.........................................................30%
........................................................40%
.........................................................50%
.........................................................60%
.........................................................70%
........................................................80%
.........................................................90%
........................................................100%
Downloading maps/dm/complex23beta.eal
File not found.
Downloading strip/menu_maps/dm/complex23beta.sp
File not found.
Downloading bot/wpfiles/maps/dm/complex23beta.wrs
File not found.
chin has entered the game!

[Acadie]

Oversight in the sofplus function. If it didn't find the map, the message will pop up regardless of the zip being on github or not. It would be better to disabling it for now (before more people install it) to avoid confusion.

[d3nd3]

V1.3
That message is renamed to "[HTTP] Checking repo for mapname"
And another message when udp download starts : "[HTTP] Map mapname not in repo"

[d3nd3]

v1.4
Improve threading logic
Improve print
Increase efficiency of timeout map detect
Neaten func file

Btw. Previous Versions are mostly obsolete because they have bugs.

[d3nd3]

In some servers and scenarios the previous version also mis-behaved.
New release v1.5 :
Redesigned the reliability of getting mapname.
This version should be much better!

https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... helper.zip

[d3nd3]

v1.6
https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... helper.zip
Works on more obscure maps like:
[rdam]_big_bedroom
It wasn't happy with the square brackets, now it uses url encoding to fix that.

[d3nd3]

v1.7
https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-1.7.zip
print message error
color print removed

[d3nd3]

v1.8
https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-1_8.zip

• disable http in singleplayer

• cvar _http2_enabled for manual toggle

[bobby00]

v1.8
https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-1_8.zip

• disable http in singleplayer

• cvar _http2_enabled for manual toggle

on sof all night use are sad lol

[d3nd3]

v1.9

• Fixed a bug in the thread logic that didn't always cleanup the created thread/callbackchain.

https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-1_9.zip

[ShocK]

Works fine on Windows 10 with no modifications using community edition 7.0 installed to its default location.
Shortcut works too - could do with a better icon for SoF_HTTP.cmd though. Would be good if it was in the community edition, far bettter than any mappack.

2023-05-27_150952_986.png

There was a link to this topic in the console I noticed, the url could be something like this https://www.sof1.org/app.php/fastmap which is a bit snappier, just needs a better write up using normal language, not nerdy programming lingo so everyone can understand

[Keifer]

Also would like to mention that once you run SoF_HTTP.cmd once - you can continue to use sof.exe after that or atleast i can.

[d3nd3]

Also would like to mention that once you run SoF_HTTP.cmd once - you can continue to use sof.exe after that or atleast i can.

Hard to know what you mean by that. The .cmd file launches a powershell which is ran in background and is closed when the sof.exe process ends. But you're right that only one powershell window is required to serve multiple SoF.exe instances.

[Trekker]

Had no issues and like that it is nearly 100% "silent"

May be a tad too silent for some!

Spoiler:

Connecting to 189.18.120.173:28910...
dm/187
[HTTP] Checking repo for dm/187.zip

It sat there with no prompts for 15 seconds
Didn't use a stop watch there.

Thinking some players might think it had crashed

Noticed ONCE, it did not delete some .zip files.
This only happened with "map/dt"

hd1.jpg

[Trekker]

Also would like to mention that once you run SoF_HTTP.cmd once - you can continue to use sof.exe after that or atleast i can.

Interesting.

The HTTP Download Helper "functions" are enabled in \sofplus\addons
I don't know if "http_listener.ps1" is awakened also when not using "SoF_HTTP.cmd" to launch SoF!

[Keifer]

Also would like to mention that once you run SoF_HTTP.cmd once - you can continue to use sof.exe after that or atleast i can.

Interesting.

The HTTP Download Helper "functions" are enabled in \sofplus\addons
I don't know if "http_listener.ps1" is awakened also when not using "SoF_HTTP.cmd" to launch SoF!

I lied, it doesnt work - just loads the function. :D

[d3nd3]

v2.0

• Fixed a bug with not deleting .zip files that contain ] and [ characters.

https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-2_0.zip

[d3nd3]

v2.1

• Fix failure to launch correct SoF.exe, if multiple SoF.exe installed with latest windows.

https://github.com/d3nd3/sof-win-http-h ... er-2_1.zip