Protecting shockwave login

We whant to protect login for a director project.

Currently it deos a username and password.

The problem is if some gets banned they can typtically stor
the last string via a sniffer and re enter the game, thus
causing issues.

SSL is out of the question due to MUS and shockwave stuff
not working well under that. This is only to protect the
login. 

We had a few experiments like encrypting a time stamp and
compairing it with the one they logged in. It works, but the
problem is if the sniffer captures that it will not matter.
The time stamp will match. 

I was thinking about using Director time to match it but
Director uses the users computer not the server. So there
are issues there.

So it seems like what every method we think of it is
difficult to protect the login because even if it is
encrypted they just have to get in the first time and repeat
the same string.

Any suggestions. I am sure this has come up a few times.

Thanks

 
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Using the shockwave-plugIn in Opera causes a problems with
preloadnetthing.

When i try to load a file that does not exist, i get the
correct errorcode,
but when i reload the page the same file will not produce an
errorcode,
it just hangs forever.

Firefox and IE work here without problems. After clearing
the browser-cache
of Opera it works again.

The only way to fix this, is to wait a certain amount of
time before 
abort the
loading. But i really don't want to wait everytime a file is
missing 
some seconds
before going on.

Is there a way to fix this?

regards!
lw

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Hi,

Where could I find the meaning of net errors number
31,32,33,34, etc... 
an exhaustive list would be cool ;)

thanks

Alexx
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexx" <earthwormjimfree.fr>


> Where could I find the meaning of net errors number
31,32,33,34, etc... an 
> exhaustive list would be cool ;)

Not seen any of those numbers, this is a hnadler i've had
lying around for 
ages, might be of use.built from the table provided in the
help under 
NetError().

on xLib_Get_NetErrorAsString NetError


case tNetError of

"OK" return ( string(tNetError) &&
"Everything is fine")

4 return ( string(tNetError) && "Bad MOA
class")

5 return ( string(tNetError) && "Bad MOA
Interface")

6 return ( string(tNetError) && "File not found
- Bad Url" ) --"Bad URL or 
Bad MOA class")

20 return ( string(tNetError) && "Internal
error (Netscape)")

4146 return ( string(tNetError) && "Connection
could not be established with 
the remote host.")

4149 return ( string(tNetError) && "Data
supplied by the server was in an 
unexpected format.")

4150 return ( string(tNetError) && "Unexpected
early closing of 
connection.")

4154 return ( string(tNetError) && "Operation
could not be completed due to 
timeout.")

4155 return ( string(tNetError) && "Not enough
memory available to complete 
the transaction.")

4156 return ( string(tNetError) && "Protocol
reply to request indicates an 
error in the reply.")

4157 return ( string(tNetError) && "Transaction
failed to be 
authenticated.")

4159 return ( string(tNetError) && "Invalid
URL.")

4164 return ( string(tNetError) && "Could not
create a socket.")

4165 return ( string(tNetError) && "Requested
object could not be found (URL 
may be incorrect).")

4166 return ( string(tNetError) && "Generic
proxy failure.")

4167 return ( string(tNetError) && "Transfer
was intentionally interrupted 
by client.")

4242 return ( string(tNetError) && "Download
stopped by netAbort(url).")

4836 return ( string(tNetError) && "Download
stopped for an unknown reason, 
possibly a network error, or the download was
abandoned.")

end case


return ( string(tNetError) && "Unknown Net
Error")

end



Noisecrime 2007


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>> Where could I find the meaning of net errors number
31,32,33,34, 
>> etc... an exhaustive list would be cool ;)
> Not seen any of those numbers, this is a hnadler i've
had lying around 
> for ages, might be of use.built from the table provided
in the help 
> under NetError().
thanks

I already have the same handler ;)
these errors codes seems to only shows on mac os anyway

by

Alexx
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> Where could I find the meaning of net errors number
31,32,33,34,
> etc... an exhaustive list would be cool ;)

hi alexx,

below the error list I know about. it doesn't have contain
codes in the 
thirties. but since you numbers form a sequence, maybe those
are 
actually netIds, not error codes?

cheers,
valentin


case errorCode of
  "OK": return "OK"
  -128 : return "User cancelled."
  0    : return "Everything is OK, peachy, and
generally acceptable."
  1    : return "Memory error."
  4    : return "Bad MOA Class. Network Xtras may be
improperly 
installed."
  5    : return "Bad MOA Interface. Network Xtras may
be improperly 
installed."
  6    : return "Bad URL."
  20   : return "Internal error. Browser detected a
network or internal 
error."
  900  : return "File to be written to is read
only."
  903  : return "Disk is full."
  905  : return "Bad URL."
  2018 : return "postNetText fail."
  4146 : return "Connection could not be established
with the remote 
host."
  4149 : return "Data supplied by the server was in an
unexpected 
format."
  4150 : return "Unexpected early closing of
connection."
  4152 : return "Data returned is truncated."
    --This may occur when using getNetText in a Shockwave
movie running 
in AOL 5.0. Specifically,
    --this will occur if you are using a ? character at the
end of your 
URL as a technique to force
    --a bypass of the cache (by fooling the browser into
thinking you 
are making a CGI call) and a
    --fresh retrieval of data from the remote server. The
AOL 5.0 
browser treats the ? character as
    --part of the filename and stored the file in the cache
with the ? 
character appended, which
    --prevents the Shockwave player from finding it.
  4154 : return "Operation could not be completed due
to timeout."
  4155 : return "Not enough memory available to
complete the 
transaction."
  4156 : return "Protocol reply to request indicates an
error in the 
reply."
  4157 : return "Transaction failed to be
authenticated."
  4159 : return "Invalid URL."
  4164 : return "Could not create a socket."
  4165 : return "Requested Object could not be found
(URL may be 
incorrect)."
  4166 : return "Generic proxy failure."
  4167 : return "Transfer was intentionally interrupted
by client."
  4168 : return "Failed network operation."
  4240 : return "The network xtras weren't initialized
properly."
  4242 : return "Download stopped by
netAbort(url)."
  4836 : return "Download stopped for an unknown
reason."
  otherwise :
    if errorCode > 4143 AND errorCode < 4164 then
      return "Failed network operation:"
&& errorCode
    else
      return "Unknown network error:" &&
errorCode
    end if
end case

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I remember having some problems with Opera ( and an older
version of
AOL ), that seemed to return 0 as the total download size,
even though
the current bytes total was non-0.

Opera definitely seems to have a weird loading / streaming
from cache
issue - if you get any more info on it, I'd be interested in
reading
your results!

Mal
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Valentin Schmidt a écrit :
>> Where could I find the meaning of net errors number
31,32,33,34,
>> etc... an exhaustive list would be cool ;)
>
> hi alexx,
>
> below the error list I know about. it doesn't have
contain codes in 
> the thirties. but since you numbers form a sequence,
maybe those are 
> actually netIds, not error codes?
ok thanks, this is the best explanation so far... maybe the
netID is 
returned as the error code, but it looks strange to me, I'll
do some 
more tests...

bye

Alexx

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