MobMapUpdater got updated

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!).

Trackbacks

    No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

  1. Jon says:

    This mod is awesome. It saves my HDD crunching when switching out to check on thott. You should add a paypal donate button somewhere to help pay for server fee's.


Add Comment


Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA 1CAPTCHA 2CAPTCHA 3CAPTCHA 4CAPTCHA 5