With a thread, we can just run curl_easy_perform() and let CURL
and threads handle the blocking part.
With async solution there are too many things to keep track of,
and it makes "when to update the GUI" tricky. By using a thread
that all gets a lot simpler, as the game-thread and download-thread
run side-by-side.
This is similar to how the WinHttp backend already works.
This requires the use of WinHTTP (for Windows) or libcurl (for all
others except Emscripten). Emscripten does not support http(s)
calls currently.
On Linux it requires ca-certificates to be installed, so the HTTPS
certificate can be validated. It is really likely this is installed
on any modern machine, as most connections these days are HTTPS.
(On MacOS and Windows the certificate store is filled by default)
Reminder: in case the http(s):// connection cannot be established,
OpenTTD falls back to a custom TCP-based connection to fetch the
content from the content-service. Emscripten will always do this.
docs/admin_network.md promised that information in an admin packet
is never removed. It does allow the possibility of using a new packet type
for changed data in combination with a bump of the admin port version.
As the recent command handling changes modified the contents of
ADMIN_PACKET_SERVER_CMD_LOGGING, do exactly that.
The data will be transmitted as the length followed by the serialized data. This allows the command
data to be different for every command type in the future.
A race condition happens when an IPv6 connection takes more than
250ms to report an error, but does return before the IPv4 connection
is established.
In result, an invalid socket might be used for that connection.
Nobody really paid attention to the lobby window, and it completely
missed its purpose. Most people don't even wait for companies to
show up, but just hit "New Company".
This in turn means people create a lot of unneeded companies, while
they "just want to watch the game" or join another company.
Instead, "Join Game" now just joins the game as spectators.
Soon we will make "join game" join the game as spectator first,
so limiting the amount of spectators makes no sense anymore in
that context. Not sure it ever did make sense.
"my_client" wasn't always free'd when a game ended. "my_client"
keeps a reference inside the PT_NCLIENT pool. The rest of the
code assumes that when you are not in a game, it can freely
reset this pool.
In result: several ways to trigger a use-after-free.
TURN is a last resort, used only if all other methods failed.
TURN is a relay approach to connect client and server together, where
openttd.org (by default) is the middleman.
It is very unlikely either the client or server cannot connect to
the STUN server, as they are both already connected to the Game
Coordinator. But in the odd case it does fail, estabilishing the
connection fails without any further possibility to recover.
Before 8a2da49 the NewGRF names were synchronized using UDP packets, however
those have been removed. With this a new version of the GameInfo packet is
introduced that allows to specify the type of serialisation happens for
NewGRFs. Either only the GRF ID and checksum, or those two plus the name of
the NewGRF.
On this request for local servers will send the NewGRFs names.
The Game Coordinator will get the names on the first registration, and after
that only the GRF ID and checksum.
These were filled with "<Unknown>" (before 8a2da49) and later their name would get filled via UDP requests to the server. These UDP packets do not exist anymore, so they will always remain "<Unknown>".
Remove that logic and just use the generic translated error GRF UNKNOWN string instead.
This method doesn't require port-forwarding to be used, and works for
most common NAT routers in home setups. But, for sure it doesn't work
for all setups, and not everyone will be able to use this.
This removes the need to know a server IP to join it. Invite codes
are small (~7 characters) indentifiers for servers, which can be
exchanged with other players to join the servers.
Normally TCPConnecter will do a DNS resolving of the connection_string
and connect to it. But for SERVER_ADDRESS_INVITE_CODE this is different:
the Game Coordinator does the "resolving".
This means we need to allow TCPConnecter to not setup a connection
and allow it to be told when a connection has been setup by an external
(to TCPConnecter) part of the code. We do this by telling the (active)
socket for the connection.
This means the rest of the code doesn't need to know the TCPConnecter
is not doing a simple resolve+connect. The rest of the code only
cares the connection is established; not how it was established.
OTTD_COORDINATOR_CS for the game coordinator defaults to coordinator.openttd.org:3976
OTTD_CONTENT_SERVER_CS for the content server defaults to content.openttd.org:3978
OTTD_CONTENT_MIRROR_CS for the content mirror server defaults to binaries.openttd.org:80
