Peblo Custom ratings must be 50 characters or less
Registered 05/07/2002
Points 185
26th November, 2005 at 05:24:48 -
Arg. I just finished another game except for the , and I just started making the highscore page. I realized that I needed a host, so I went to google. I find this good host that supports .asp, but for some reason, MooSock won't connect to anything without www. in front of it. Made it really convienent for my http://j.peblo.othercrap.tb or whatever.
Anyways, I find another host that supports asp, and find out after I register that I need to pay for database support. I continue my search from 9:30pm to 2:30am until, fustrated, I decide to use my unprotected home http server to host. I go and register a free .tk name, and upload my .asp files. When I go to check my page, nothing shows up. So I head over to w3schools to go find out what I need to run .asp files. About half way down the page, I read that "You cannot run ASP on Windows XP Home Edition".
My conclusion: Windows XP wasn't worth the money that I could have spent on a reliable server.
Thanks for reading my story. If you can help with MMF, servers, asp, or want to tell me I'm stupid for screwing up some simple code or something, post a comment.
"Isn't it always amazing how we characterize a person's intelligence by how closely their thinking matches ours?"
~Belgarath
Uh you can get a copy of ISS 6 from the Prof. Ed. of Win XP or Win. S. 2k on your Windows XP Home Edition.
That supports Asp.
One comment, why don't you use PHP and MySQL? It does make the job way easier.
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Peblo Custom ratings must be 50 characters or less
Registered 05/07/2002
Points 185
26th November, 2005 at 06:47:15 -
Arg. I don't know what I'm doing. If you say php is easier, I'll try it if I can find some help on it. It just means more sorting through forever servers forever though.
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"Isn't it always amazing how we characterize a person's intelligence by how closely their thinking matches ours?"
~Belgarath
Let me know what you eventually get working. I've got a game finished and ready to go that was supposed to use the V-Cade Remote for online high scores, but it's dead now.
Works for me..
I've used / and addresses with no www. before and it worked fine.
Remember though - you don't connect to www.website.com/peblo - you connect to www.website.com on port 80, then send a text line and GET info from blah blah.
I made an article on high scores using PHP and MooSock - just click my name.
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Peblo Custom ratings must be 50 characters or less
Registered 05/07/2002
Points 185
27th November, 2005 at 04:07:53 -
I'll wait till viperhosting is registering again, I can't find any other PHP/MySQL host that isn't uber retarded.
"Isn't it always amazing how we characterize a person's intelligence by how closely their thinking matches ours?"
~Belgarath
I might set up my own kind of registration system so people can make high-score boards.. Like Vcade but easier. I'd need to speak to Shab to ask about using Ectoprods hosting for it though.
Yeh only problem I may have. I'd need encryption that works both in MMF (so encrypt data via MMF) and then decrypt in PHP. Otherwise people can just enter their own scores using: http://website.com/score.php?score=1001038
Isn't MD5 just for hashing? You aren't supposed to decrypt it. What you do is send your score to the server in the form:
site.com/high.php?score=1234567890&name=distractionpenis&hash=[MD5(name+score+[SUPERSECRETKEY])]
Then in PHP, you perform the same hashing operation with the same secret key, compare it to the digest above, and if they match add the provided score and name to the DB.
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