PT Server at Linux

I believe it is a)not free, b)not open source c)not exactly discontinued.

I think it's Sun ONE Active Server Pages which is now a feature of the Sun ONE (Sun Open Net Environment) which was available up to Version 6 SP4, for sure, and then seems to have become Sun ONE Studio, for which there is clearly a version 8. Beyond that, and the Oracle take-over I'm not sure what it may be called.


It is cross-platform because it runs only on the Sun JRE/JVM, and contains ActiveDirectory, and other Network directories, Email, Collaboration, Web and FTP services with server side scripting and built in web control panels, and in the studio versions it even seems to contain a C++ compiler... in Java... how odd. :/:

Despite being Java only, different installation packages where released for each supported platform. Originally (version 4) there was Windows, Unix and Solaris. But later there seem to be installers for AIX and other Unix variants too.

I don't think you can "download" this for free, and I certainly don't think you can share it with us for free. :wink:

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BTW... That strange code:-

Code:

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strSplit = Chr(&h0D)
strSplit2 = Chr(&h7C)

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You know we both missed the obvious equivalent:-

Code:

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strSplit = Chr(13)
strSplit2 = "|"

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:lol:

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Looks like it became Sun Java System Web Server which was, at some point BSD license with Open Source core technologies, as well as free software. (though I'm sure Richard Stallman and the GNU/FSF wouldn't consider it "free" at all) This could be as "free" and "open source" as Mac OS X, which is also BSD licensed with an Open Source policy on most of it's core technologies.

I note that while the commercial Sun Java System Web Server clearly states it has ASP ability, the Open Source "Open Web Server" only mentions "SSL, CGI, FastCGI and its own NSAPI interface." Though the original article I linked in this edit states that Sun Java System Web Server is "free", it doesn't say how free. (free for who, and for what purpose)

I find a note on Oracle website that says:-

Quote:

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Oracle iPlanet Web Server securely and reliably deploys web applications built with leading-edge technologies, such as JavaServer Pages, Java servlets, Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion, Personal Home Page construction kit (PHP), and Common Gateway Interface (CGI). A PHP add-on is available for Web Server 7.0

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and also indicates that that product is part of "Oracle Web Tier". That product is available to download for "free" from Oracle under a very strict license.

Here are some of the terms I picked up which you must agree to comply with:-

• The programs may be installed on one computer only, and used by one person in the operating environment identified by us.
• You may not use the programs for your own internal data processing or for any commercial or production purposes, or use the programs for any purpose except the development of your application
• You may not make the programs available in any manner to any third party
• You agree that U.S. export control laws and other applicable export and import laws govern your use of the programs
• You are not a citizen, national, or resident of, and are not under control of, the government of Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, Syria, nor any country to which the United States has prohibited export.
• You will not download or otherwise export or re-export the Programs, directly or indirectly, to the above mentioned countries nor to citizens, nationals or residents of those countries.
• We may audit your use of the programs.

(Just a few that I lolled at) Anyone else here saying "F№§₦ʥing Nazis"?:lol:

On MONO "COM is not supported" and I can't pass my variables. I think I will test ArrowHead one more time.

Too bad I can't use (even find) sun ASP. I still would like to know if it would work anyway.

"You agree that U.S. export control laws and other applicable export and import laws govern your use of the programs"

LOL, keep dreaming XD

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Sounds arse-about-face, but should do the trick. (Apache Tomcat... ewww)

I prefer tutorial in ArrowHead readme :)

Clans still not working. I will have to configure windows clans to get packets data.
IIS NOOOOOO!!!
http://data.whicdn.com/images/4811949/vader_large.jpg

Natiz from Oracle not allowing me to use their product,

Spoiler:

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-...-3d-hiltar.jpg

MONO is good for nothing, ArrowHead giving me error at connection string and mod_aspdotnet working only under windows. Any other alternatives for ASP under Linux?

But is still strange, client have some PHP strings used by official PT. I wonder what version of PHP they have.

We might be doing something wrong at those:
strSplit = Chr(13)
strSplit2 = "|"

They are standard vb4 split-strings. (dumb-ass way of creating a string array without declaring an array)

You know when you make a "file browse filter" in Winblows dialogues, how you say "*.bat|*.cmd|*.txt|*.ini|*.cfg" or such? Well it's like that. The string-split routine looks for the first "|" in the string, and makes everything before it the first filter, then it chops that, and the "|" off, and looks for the next one... and so on.

The "Char(13)" is not good. It doesn't take into account MS "Char(10)"... Remember, Basic doesn't escape "\r\n" It stores 0D0A directly in a Basic string without difficulty... just as it can store "\0" without difficulty. But Windows, Mac and Linux use different conventions for "Carriage Return, New Line". So it's not great, no matter what.

I would say go PHP all the way... or if you really want to stick with ASP, convert to Perl. (can it really be that hard? IDK, I've never tried)

OK, I'm more positive about PHP now. My test script worked on Linux version and I was able to pop clan chief sod page.

On windows data is separated with hex "OD" but on linux it can work without any split. This might give me some error in other scripts.

So far I can tell that this have nothing to do with "packet "corruption"" or win api. It should work on any HTTP server. I'm eliminating MONO, its sending me pages code not results in packets.

PS. Your awesome hotuk.ini (the one with comments) have bug, clans not sending IP/not working. Maybe it have something to do with number of lines/comments or some command that block clans :/
Too bad I like your commentary.

clans have nearly NOTHING to do with packets. They are mostly managed by the ASP pages. The only clan packets sent/received,the server basically just broadcast them.

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Originally Posted by SheenBR

clans have nearly NOTHING to do with packets. They are mostly managed by the ASP pages. The only clan packets sent/received,the server basically just broadcast them.

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You should study network before being adamant about something you don't know ;]

Hmm... What Sheen means is almost certainly correct. What he just said (when he reconsiders, I'm sure he will agree) is completely wrong.

No information passes between two computers over the internet which is not packetised. Therefore... without packets... each client must make up clans entirely independently of the server and all other clients. This is, quite clearly, not the case.

The PT server has almost nothing to do with clans, or clan packets. The client communicates directly with the Web Server (not necessarily IIS) via packets. IIS communicates with your browser via packets... it cannot communicate anything without packets.

The client could communicate with Windows HTTP Client without packets... but it does not. Windows HTTP Client could communicate with the Clan server via packets and provide "pages" to the client, and the client would get the same information, and be less tied to a particular web servers packet encoding. (specifically, the encoding used by IIS) But it does not.

The PT client treats the IIS server like a generic internet communication service... like it treats the PT server. It doesn't treat it like a "web" server, much. Or, to put it another way, it implements it's own, built in and inflexible web client, rather than using built in system routines for dealing with the higher HTTP protocol. (that's redundant, but done to be explicit)

The communication is:-
Client <- TCP/IP <- HTTP <- IIS

It is not:-
Client <- HTTP <- TCP/IP <- HTTP <- IIS

If it where the later, then any HTTP compliant web server would do. Because it is not, there is no "decoding" of the general and open Web standard HTTP encoding. This leads to it being tied to the specific encoding produced by IIS. (in some circumstances)

There is more communicated between a web server and a web browser than URLs requested and pages returned. There are negotiation and identification "packets", and those are (or can be) as different for each web server as the "User Agent" packets sent out by every web browser. :wink:

(there are programs which can tell you what type of web server software is serving various pages on the internet, just as the above link will tell you what browser you are using... I can tell my browser that it is a Sony Playstation and that site will believe it... a web server can transmit via a web proxy and it's identity will also be masked)

http://i.imgur.com/ursnE.jpg
Just for LOLs

It's a shame we can't tell Apace (or something else more widely available to non-Windows OS) to pretend it is IIS. :/: As I say... I believe you can set IIS up as a forwarding proxy for Apache, and IIS will encode the Apache packets like IIS packets and resolve the problem... except that that doesn't resolve anything, because if you have to serve the Clan data from IIS for the client to understand it, then it may as well be IIS which runs the scripts in the first place. :(: (the point, I believe, which Gregoo has been making for years :wink:)

Last page left... most annoying one. .aspx...................and I should get working clan system. other pages working in .php now.

I need help:

Code:

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          objQuery = "SELECT SNo FROM CT WHERE ChName='" & chname & "' AND UserID='" & userid & "'"
            objCommand = New SqlCommand(objQuery, objConn)
            objReader = objCommand.ExecuteReader()
           
            Dim tticket
           
            If objReader.Read()
                                tticket = objReader.Item(0)
                                If ticket <> tticket Then
                                        objReader.Close()
                                        objConn.Close()
                                        Response.Write("Code=100" & strSplit)
                                        Response.End
                                Else

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What this If objReader.Read() do?
Is it if row exist? if query exist? if some result of execution? bool value, true?

tticket = objReader.Item(0) is SNo value?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Gregoo

You should study network before being adamant about something you don't know ;]

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you should stop being an arse hole ;]

I meant PT packets -.- and for almost every clan action, the server is not notified. clan is basically only client side. at least, I was able to implement clans in my emu just by rewriting the clan scripts and managing one or two clan packets. (if I remember, when you try to invite someone, you need to send a packet to the desired player, dont remember very well.)

@vormav
Yes. it is " if row exists then, if results > 0 then... " and yes aswell.

I guess it is

Code:

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If New SqlCommand("SELECT SNo FROM CT WHERE ChName='" & chname & "' AND UserID='" & userid & "'", objConn).ExecuteReader.Read As Boolean

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I can make "bugged" clans. They don't load when you relog.

1st problem is in request for logo (.bmp), it gives me randomHex.bmp.
It can be forced but it will generate bugged data in client.

2nd is in clan load, client is not sending player name but here forcing it is crashing game.exe :/
Most likely because of bugged clan data file on client sided.

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ERROR 65 supposed to be some lack of read permission, I think I have all I need except execution.

Don't get why I can get correct .bmp name :/

Do the results look the same (correct) in a browser?

Browser will not show you everything, ClanContent/<clanIconNumber>.bmp is not part of php scripts. It takes info partly from SQL, Clan.dll and client.exe

I remember that I had problem like that (<randomHex>.bmp) on windows, but I cant remember how I fixed it.