Hi everyone,
we recently noticed a weird behaviour in the download database:
If a download database entry was created, and linked to an external file, this would ONLY work if the link was deposted as https, and not if it was http. This is an effect of security measures within the browsers, and is mostly an organizational thing. But it lead to the fact that some of our downloads were not downloadable, and we want to fix this now.
We do have nearly 4600 links to external entries in our database.
A good part (~1400) is lost, since they have been hosted at defunct sites (megaupload, fileinformer, atomicgamer, etc). We hope to be able to address that later.
From the remaing ~3200, nearly 1900 need fixing.
This will be happening over the next days, automatically.
We hope this will not cause any disturbances. In theory this updating should work without any changes to the database, besides a temporal re-assignment of the uploads, which will be reversed after the update.
But if you see any weird behaviour, or anything unexpected in the database, please let us know, so that we can take a look at it
.
Otherwise: Happy modding
.
we recently noticed a weird behaviour in the download database:
If a download database entry was created, and linked to an external file, this would ONLY work if the link was deposted as https, and not if it was http. This is an effect of security measures within the browsers, and is mostly an organizational thing. But it lead to the fact that some of our downloads were not downloadable, and we want to fix this now.
We do have nearly 4600 links to external entries in our database.
A good part (~1400) is lost, since they have been hosted at defunct sites (megaupload, fileinformer, atomicgamer, etc). We hope to be able to address that later.
From the remaing ~3200, nearly 1900 need fixing.
This will be happening over the next days, automatically.
We hope this will not cause any disturbances. In theory this updating should work without any changes to the database, besides a temporal re-assignment of the uploads, which will be reversed after the update.
But if you see any weird behaviour, or anything unexpected in the database, please let us know, so that we can take a look at it

Otherwise: Happy modding
