[cod] Cfg download hacking

[Morpheus]

  Some funny things you find in closed-source games, that won't be 
corrected. Do you think that we can hope Infinity ward to open up the 
source code for cod2 ? :D

Le 13/09/2010 21:33, David at Game-Serve a écrit :
> On 13/09/10 20:16, Morpheus wrote:
>> Yes, but it is only relevant with http downloading (I'm simlinking 
>> the folder too, but with a good htaccess restrictions, and stricts 
>> permission on the files--only readable by the owner). Is it possible 
>> to use the client to try downloading the cfg through the built-in 
>> protocol ? That could be the major hack, and it can potentially touch 
>> every quake-based game, at least those using the same net codebase 
>> (cod2 is one of them).
>>
>> But I'm pretty sure it's not the case, and http is the way to follow, 
>> and to harden...
>
> You mean like the one that already exists on the quake3 engine based 
> games? like mohaa which will allow you to download the config files on 
> servers that dont have downloads disabled (set sv_allowDownload "0"), 
> whats worse is that mohaa doesn't even use the server-client download 
> functions of the quake3 engine but the code must still be in there 
> somewhere as the exploit works
>
>
>
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