MobMapUpdater got updated
Thursday, March 15. 2007
I did some changes in the internals of the MobMapUpdater tool. Most importantly: the MobMapUpdater now has http proxy support!
The Updater will automatically use the Windows proxy settings (those you can configure in the Internet Explorer). If you want to use the MobMapUpdater behind a proxy you will have to download the newest Installer executable and install the Updater, even if the tool is already installed on your machine. This is necessary because the automatic update procedure cannot update the 'selfupdate.exe', so you wouldn't be able to download new MobMapUpdater versions using the proxy if you don't reinstall the whole program.
Besides that, I switched from gzip to bzip2 compression for the database download, which saves a few hundred kilobytes of traffic on each database update due to the much better compression ratio of the bzip2 algorithm. I also introduced bzip2 compression in the addon update procedure (these lua and xml text files can be compressed really well!).
The Updater will automatically use the Windows proxy settings (those you can configure in the Internet Explorer). If you want to use the MobMapUpdater behind a proxy you will have to download the newest Installer executable and install the Updater, even if the tool is already installed on your machine. This is necessary because the automatic update procedure cannot update the 'selfupdate.exe', so you wouldn't be able to download new MobMapUpdater versions using the proxy if you don't reinstall the whole program.
Besides that, I switched from gzip to bzip2 compression for the database download, which saves a few hundred kilobytes of traffic on each database update due to the much better compression ratio of the bzip2 algorithm. I also introduced bzip2 compression in the addon update procedure (these lua and xml text files can be compressed really well!).
