Flav wrote on Apr 28
th, 2015 at 3:01pm:
Oh it's a simple flag, well a simple parameter, I don't remember it, but I remember seeing it in the launcher log files and wondering if I it was possible to hack the GLS server in such a way that he sent back the right token for an admin account.
Yeah I see that you too are stuck with the sour feeling that you should have looked deep into the things earlier. the Akamai debacle got rid of a lot of legacy things.
( those log files were extremely useful when troubleshooting connection issues. Nowadays you're just left wondering )
Akami did mess things up for us, as well as them running the launcher through a proxy. It's all standard operating procedures for the cyber-domain we exist in, where any idiot on 4chan can torrent or SourceForge the LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) and will intermediate knowledge of C# can modify it and run it through a VPN in an internet cafe to take out Chase or American Airlines servers.
DDO however, is still a game, and I doubt their counter cyber-warfare knowledge is up to par.
Anyways, back to the matter at hand. I am sure that the parameter is extremely simple in it's nature as you said, probably in the form of some SSL Certifcate or XML signature file, I doubt they're running some 256-bit AES encryption lol.
I was looking at the DNDClient.txt log files, and I say this one line that caught my eye.
286362065.693: GlobalEventHandler::RecvEvt_PlayerSessionStart_ServerToClient: player: 0x0213000000xxxxx
(I X'ed out the last parts in case they're unique per account)
I wonder if that number is indeed unique per player character, or is it unique per account...or perhaps per type. If some people can provide theirs in a PM for me and/or Flav (if he's interested) to look at, that would be nice.
If anyone of you are familiar with Asheron's Call 2, a German dude going by Haraxx was pulling together a group of people from around the web to create an emulator for Asheron's Call 2...we were actually pretty successful, but Turbine gave us a C&D, then about a year and a half later relaunched AC2 for shits-n-gigs.
I know he, or someone on his old forums, had a program that could read those Turbine .dat files, unless you know of a good one Flav.
The one's that would most likely contain our answers are:
client_cell_1.dat
client_cell_2.dat
and maybe even patchclient.dll