[mohaa] Spearhead expired??!?!?!?!?

[Ryan C. Gordon]

> I am finding the same thing to be true. Does not matter what type of OS,
> it is doing the same thing.

(As for the difference between BETA1 and BETA2: I did a "make clean; make"
to rebuild with a later expiration date. Shouldn't be other changes.)

So I looked at the source...MOHAA doesn't do anything with the CD-key, as
far as I can tell, but Spearhead added support for GameSpy's CDkey SDK.

It looks as if the client sends a cdkey (or maybe a cdkey hash) to the
server, which then contacts a gamespy server for authorization. Gamespy
then either gives a thumbs up or gives the finger and the server notifies
the client and drops the connection if appropriate (well, it's UDP, so
it's not really _dropped_, but it'll clear out any client state, so
continuing to send packets from the client won't help...it'd have to go
through the login procedure again and get blocked at the same point).

If the GameSpy connection times out, the server will give the client the
benefit of the doubt and let them in (hmm...so server admins could
theoretically block traffic to GameSpy to get around this...). It will
ONLY deny entrance due to a "pirated" key if GameSpy tells them to do so.

Does that help?

--ryan.