Archived

This is no longer needed, because protify no longer will have a store and social features, will remain complety offline.

Protify Server

Creates the server for hosting the protify features, protify is game/software launcher to make the life of linux users easy to run windows applications in linux or native applications, take a look in Protify

Technical Informations

The servers by default is ready to receive 99 request from 1 ip during 1 minute, if a ip request more than this will be ignored without a response and reset the timer to 1 minute.

Body can only send 800 kilobytes, if a request send more than this it will be ignored with a Limit Overflow response.

Url path can only have 1000 characters, otherwise will be ignored with a Limite Overflow response

Headers cannot be more than 255 kilobytes, if this is not satisfied the client will receive Limit Overflow response.

• All requests needs to include this headers: username, token, if not will get a Not Authorized response.
• anonymous user can send a request without token, but have limited access to actions in the server

Sending query needs the & character and the variable name also the value after the = example: /test&value=1&othervalue=2

Database Struct

• USERS, users data
• GAME_REGISTER, register the games to be finded in store
• SHOWCASE, add the games id you want to be show in showcase on main store menu

The database can be configured in src/components/database.rs

pub const DATABASE_NAME: &'static str = "protify_server";
pub const DATABASE_USERNAME: &'static str = "admin";
pub const DATABASE_PASSWORD: &'static str = "secret-password";
pub const DATABASE_IP: &'static str = "127.0.0.1";
pub const DATABASE_PORTS: u16 = 3306;

Request Errors:

• invalid_store_path_contact_the_server_owner (internal server error)
• error_message_is_empty (internal server error)
• connection_to_database_failed (internal server error)
• not_found_cannot_find_the_specific_url (invalid request)
• size_limit (request too big)
• user_dont_have_access_to_this_action (invalid authentication)
• invalid_parameters (user send invalid data)

Server Games

Protify launcher uses the zcat and tar linux to uncompress the game files using the command zcat game.tgz.part-* | tar -x, the server needs to have a compressed file in parts using the command tar -cvzf - /path/to/folder | split -b 10m - game., the recommended size is 10 megabytes, the server send every part to the launcher and the launcher uncompress every part.

Default location for files, consider the path to the server

• Games: /store/games
• Softwares: /store/softwares

FTM License.