[quake3] sv_dlURL

[Tony J. White]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:37:41AM -0500, Rob Willmore wrote:
>    I'm looking for help with sv_dlURL. Specifically, it say to add the
>    command to the SERVERINFO string. Now, what exactly *is* the server info
>    string? This would be for a normal Quake 3 server that I want to push
>    files via HTTP to clients connecting with the ioQuake client. I've tried
>    adding it to my q3config.cfg on the server, but it doesn't appear to work.
>    When I try to play the game and download the custom file via HTTP, it
>    still says it's trying to download it from baseQ3 via UDP and not the http
>    redirect I've set up. The server is set up to serve via http and the
>    ioquake client is setup to receive files in that manner. In a nutshell,
>    what I need is the location to place this command and the correct format.
>    I've been trying it in the q3config.cfg as this: sets sv_dlURL
>    "http://216.246.26.11" with no luck...it still seems to be pointing to the
>    old baseq3 dir on the server.

I don't know, it sounds like you are doing things properly.

You are using the 'sets' command to add the sv_dlURL cvar into the 
SERVERINFO string.  Also, It sounds like you have the sv_allowDownload 
cvar set to 1 since you are getting UDP downloads.

First, I would verify that your server's SERVERINFO string is really
getting set up properly.  You can do this with the qstat utility
from here:

http://www.qstat.org

With the command 'qstat -R -q3s <your server ip>

If that command shows that sv_dlURL is set and sv_allowDownload is 1, then
it points to a client problem.  Make sure you have an ioq3 binary 
that supports cURL downloads, cl_allowDownload is set to a value that 
allows cURL downloads.  Finally, it's possible that even though your ioq3
client supports cURL, it is unable to load the cURL library on
your system.  If this is the case there should be a warning about
it in your client console.


-Tony