Thread: Universal Launcher - Simple Client Loader

Originally Posted by Patrity

I would hope people are using best practices when hosting any file. If a malicious person gained control of any service, it would be detrimental.

irrelevant, pretty much all reputable sources offer checksums for files they offer to ensure the integrity of the files coming from their hosts as well as signing files to ensure they have not been tampered with. ideally imo the file you upload to your host should be signed and your launcher should verify the signature which ensures that the file was never modified by an attacker at any point in the process. this is "best practice" not "making sure" that your website can't be compromised, that's ridiculous. how can you possibly be 100% confident that there is absolutely no way into whatever system you have hosting your files? you can't. assume the worst. prepare for failure

Originally Posted by Patrity

Offer an alternative. Your comment is meaningless.

ideally something with http2 support, either java9 httpclient, okhttp, retrofit, etc and nio for files, its much less error prone, more robust error handling to know when something with your file xfer went wrong

Originally Posted by Patrity

That's correct. A better alternative is to package Java with the launcher however, this is not the purpose of this release.

then maybe you shouldn't call it "ANY UNIVERSAL LAUNCHER"

Originally Posted by Tyluur

ok then go make a PR? Whats all this conversation for?

apparently him giving constructive criticism & helping him improve the code means he has to make a PR, ight fella, wish i could neg u twice

Originally Posted by Tyluur

Thats okay. Nobody speaks up to programmer ranks and they feel like its okay to do this.

Undoubtedly some of them have an ego larger than the Deltascape client.java but I'd pick a fight with someone who isn't actually making reasonable suggestions. Should be plenty in discord to pick on.