Springfiles randomly provides wrong download links

[raaar]

I just uploaded the latest version of my game to springfiles and something very weird happened.

File uploaded was "metal_factions_v0.95.sdz". After I tried to download, it showed me "metal_factions-v0.95.sdz" instead!

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I reuploaded the exact same file, and now it shows up fine when trying to download.

I think this already happened once, where I had uploaded a version and people who downloaded it would not show up as synced on the autohost, even people that auto-downloaded it through springlobby. Then I uploaded a new version following the same naming rules and it worked fine.

Maybe springfiles or some mirror is converting the underscore before the version suffix to a "-", but only sometimes, or some specific mirrors.

[abma]

the mirroring system normalizes filenames, so on mirrors filenames will be different, when you download from springfiles.com the filename keeps the same when the name doesn't contain special chars / no duplicate filename exists.

its not "randomly", its based on your selection.

maybe also see http://api.springfiles.com/

[raaar]

It's bugged!

The file I uploaded has "_", the current download link shows "_" (for me at least, I'm at Portugal). All I had to do was reupload the file.

The link you gave still shows "-" instead!

[abma]

i repeat: the mirroring system normalizes filenames, this means, you can upload dadasjkdasjasdkl.sd7 to springfiles.com and the file will be renamed to <name read from modinfo.lua>-<version>.type on the mirroring system.

the files downloaded from urls starting with http://springfiles.com/downloadmain/ are not renamed, all files found at http://api.springfiles.com/ are renamed. thats a restriction of the current system.

[raaar]

does the lobby auto-download use the api?

If so, doesn't that mean that a person manually downloading the file and a person auto-downloading the same file through lobby will get files with different names?

Can't this cause sync issues (people download stuff through lobby but remain unsynced)? I start my spads autohost after I manually download the file from springfiles.

So I should use <name>-version.sdz instead of <name>_<version>.sdz to ensure consistency?

[gajop]

Different archive names should not cause sync issues, and if they do, that should be considered an engine bug.
What's matters is what's inside archives, not how they're named.

[raaar]

this happened again today, with springlobby 0.255

game room uses engine 100.0

https://github.com/springlobby/springlobby/issues/744

[abma]

quote myself:

i repeat: the mirroring system normalizes filenames, this means, you can upload dadasjkdasjasdkl.sd7 to springfiles.com and the file will be renamed to <name read from modinfo.lua>-<version>.type on the mirroring system.

the files downloaded from urls starting with http://springfiles.com/downloadmain/ are not renamed, all files found at http://api.springfiles.com/ are renamed. thats a restriction of the current system.

also this thread is about wrong a filename and not about not synced: locked this thread.