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Ioncannon: /* FFXIVUpdater */

2019-06-07T01:17:38Z

‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎FFXIVUpdater

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‎Patch Downloader

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‎Gallery

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‎Rerouting the Programs

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 ==FFXIVUpdater==
-The FFXIV patch files is the [[ZiPatch_File_Structure|ZiPatch]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
+The FFXIV patch files is the [[ZiPatch_File_Structure|ZiPatch File Structure]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
 ==FFXIVLogin==

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 ==FFXIVUpdater==
-The FFXIV patch files is the [[ZiPatch_File_Structure]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
+The FFXIV patch files is the [[ZiPatch_File_Structure|ZiPatch]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
 ==FFXIVLogin==

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 ==FFXIVUpdater==
-The FFXIV patch files is [[ZiPatch|ZiPatch_File_Structure]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
+The FFXIV patch files is the [[ZiPatch_File_Structure]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
 ==FFXIVLogin==

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 ==FFXIVUpdater==
-The FFXIV patch files is [ZiPatch|ZiPatch_File_Structure]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
+The FFXIV patch files is [[ZiPatch|ZiPatch_File_Structure]]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
 ==FFXIVLogin==

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 ==FFXIVUpdater==
-The patcher does two things: iterator over every entry, verify both the old file and new file SHA1 signatures are correct, and then executes any operation the block defines. Once all blocks are iterated over the program is patched and ffxivboot is rebooted
+The FFXIV patch files is [ZiPatch|ZiPatch_File_Structure]. The updater iterates over every block in the patch and executes the command defined. Once patching is complete, FFXIVBoot is restarted.
 ==FFXIVLogin==

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	==FFXIVUpdater==		==FFXIVUpdater==
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−	~~Once the patch file has been downloaded ffxivboot copies the ffxivupdater program to the FFXIV documents folder and executes it.~~

	The patcher does two things: iterator over every entry, verify both the old file and new file SHA1 signatures are correct, and then executes any operation the block defines. Once all blocks are iterated over the program is patched and ffxivboot is rebooted		The patcher does two things: iterator over every entry, verify both the old file and new file SHA1 signatures are correct, and then executes any operation the block defines. Once all blocks are iterated over the program is patched and ffxivboot is rebooted

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 Once downloaded the necessary files will be stored like this:
-* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/<program hash>/vercheck.dat</code> - This is just the response returned above, stored in a file.
+* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/downloads/ffxiv/<program hash>/vercheck.dat</code> - This is just the response returned above, stored in a file.
-* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/<program hash>/metainfo/D2012.05.20.0000.0001.torrent</code> - The torrent file.
+* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/downloads/ffxiv/<program hash>/metainfo/D2012.05.20.0000.0001.torrent</code> - The torrent file.
-* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/<program hash>/patch/D2012.05.20.0000.0001.patch</code> - The actual patch file that is being downloaded.
+* <code><FFXIV Games Folder>/downloads/ffxiv/<program hash>/patch/D2012.05.20.0000.0001.patch</code> - The actual patch file that is being downloaded.
 For all intents and purposes the FFXIV patch downloader is an off-the-shelf Bittorrent client, with the peer handshake functionality modified.
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 * The <code>infoHash</code> is Blowfish encrypted using the <code>peerId</code> as a key.
-The rest of the protocol is standard Bittorrent and does not require any special use case. Once the patch is fully downloaded ffxivboot closes and updating commences.
+The rest of the protocol is standard Bittorrent and does not require any special use case.
 ==FFXIVUpdater==

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 <gallery mode=packed>
 File:Ffxivboot download.png|Downloading a patch using the built in torrent client in ffxivboot.
 File:Ffxivlogin.png|The ffxivlogin program post-2012
 </gallery>

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 * On the web server, the proper responses have to be returned when the version check happens.
 * A new URL to the login server has to be encoded and replaced in the ffxivlogin binary. The web server should add the auth tag once the session is ready.
 ==Gallery==