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[milo christiansen]

With version 8 Rubble now supports automatic update for addon packs. Currently this works via the simple expedient of requiring addon packs that want auto-update to provide a URL where the current version may be found. I would prefer to allow packs to provide a DFFD file ID instead of the URL, as that would be nicer in various ways.

My current problems are as follows:

* How do you go from an ID to a download URL? It seems you need the filename, is there a way to get that?
* Is it possible to query the version number given to DFFD?
* Is it possible to get a checksum for the current file, or failing that, the file size without needing to make a HEAD request?

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

[Dirst]

As far as I can tell, you need an ID# and a file name to download.  To get the version, you can use this not-particularly-elegant regex on the HTML

<td class="row" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px solid \#BBBBBB;">File version:</td>\r\n    <td class="row" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px solid \#BBBBBB;">(.*?)</td>

[milo christiansen]

Surely there is a way to query meta-data for an ID?

The way I have works, but it inflates the download counter...

[Dirst]

Surely there is a way to query meta-data for an ID?

The way I have works, but it inflates the download counter...

Ah, that is something to be avoided...

[milo christiansen]

Ah, that is something to be avoided...

My thoughts exactly...

I have some plans to make a Rubble content server (that holds just meta-data, actual files would go elsewhere), but it's not ready yet, and even if it was I have no place to host it... So for now I want to try to use DFFD, but without needing to make a HEAD request every time I need info.