/fl/ - Flash

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/04/26(Thu)22:11 No. 13408 ID: 9bd587

File swfchan.swf - (4.68MB )

Hello guys, I'm trying out something new for swfchan and was wondering if anyone here might be interesting in helping me test it.

I don't usually post using my nick and trip but since this project is a bit unusual I'm making an exception. In order for it to work it depends on regular site visitors being willing to contribute.

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/04/26(Thu)22:13 No. 13409 ID: 9bd587

The project is about mirroring flash files. Instead of all files being downloaded directly from swfchan a list of mirror locations will be presented to the one trying to download the file. This will reduce the stress of the main server and also make files download much faster for everybody. If you are in the US you can get the swf from a US location instead of pulling it from the overloaded swfchan server in Sweden, and if you are in Japan you can get the swf from a Japanese location. If such locations exist, that is.

To be honset I don't really expect this to succeed since I'd have to find a few motivated people that actually are willing to sacrifice a little of their own bandwidth just for the good of the community. But I've made a system for it because if it actually DOES succeed it was worth the effort. And if it doesn't at least I tried. I'd be pretty happy if I can get just one lasting mirror with a couple of files.

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/04/26(Thu)22:14 No. 13410 ID: 9bd587

But right now I would just like to find some people willing to test the thing out. So even if you don't plan to host a permanent mirror I'd appreciate it if you could test the thing out for a moment, even if you just share a couple of flash files.

No signup is required, and you don't even have to talk with me.

All you have to do is go to http://mirror.swfchan.com/ and download the ~100 KiB client. Double click it to run (your computer has to have Java installed).

A "share" folder is created next to the jar file. Put some swf files in there and restart the client. If I've done the code correctly, and you have ports 12345 (UDP) and 54321 (TCP) open, your computer should now be working as a fully automated mirror. If you want to stop being a mirror all you have to do is exit the program. There are no obligations or demands. Just the client being on or off.

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/04/26(Thu)22:15 No. 13411 ID: 9bd587

Future plans is that new flash files added to swfchan will be automatically downloaded and mirrored by the client. In other words you will always have the latest discovered flash files on your computer. Of course if you don't want this feature you will be able to disable it in the ini config text file that is created the first time you run the program. And later if you don't want to keep a downloaded file you can just delete it from your computer.

So there you have it, I'm looking for those few dedicated people that want to help out. Can't expect them to come to me, that's why I started this thread. If you feel up for it please try the mirror client. Thank you for your time!

Anonymous 12/04/27(Fri)05:46 No. 13412 ID: 8e32b9

We started the projects board the other day, it has very few posts.

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/05/01(Tue)03:02 No. 13423 ID: 9bd587

A new version has been released of the client, hopefully more stable. If anyone is interesting in helping me test, please grab the client. A few people has already tried, and it seems to be working well, but I'm interested in stress-testing the system with a lot more mirrors than just a few if possible. I'm especially interested in mirrors with a huge amount of mirrored files.

>>13412
Oh I was not aware, however that board is a wildcard board. Meaning that the topic may not stay long, right? I'd rather have the project thread here since it's a lot closer to the people that could be interested in helping out, plus the thread can stick around for longer.

I will however make a note of this thread over on /777/ to direct people here that want to know more.

Anonymous 12/05/08(Tue)01:09 No. 13439 ID: 3c8564

I am interested and as I speak I am trying to set it up on my server with 50 Mb/s up and down. Happy mirroring!

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/05/08(Tue)10:39 No. 13458 ID: 9bd587

>>13439
Awesome! Thanks a lot

Anonymous 12/05/08(Tue)18:44 No. 13459 ID: 3c8564

>>13458
>I am interested and as I speak I am trying to set it up on my server with 50 Mb/s up and down.

The server is now running and atm the only service on that server so its dedicated haha.

The only problem is that I don't have that much .swf's looking forward to the auto-downloading-function.

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/06/05(Tue)02:49 No. 13568 ID: 9bd587

>>13459
Fantastic! Sorry for the late reply. The problem with you not having that many swf files could be fixed today.

The reason why I'm popping by is because version 1.0.0 has just been released. The auto-mirror feature has been implemented!

So if you would like to have the newest and/or most popular flash files on swfchan delivered to your hard drive automatically, feel free to set up a mirror.

If you have any questions or comments I'll be monitoring this thread for at least a few days, if it doesn't seem like I'll respond you are welcome to leave a message on swfchan.org/1018/

MackanZoor!///SWFAnts 12/07/09(Mon)00:16 No. 13741 ID: 9bd587

Bumping to say that 1.4.0 has been released, the client is stable now and CPU requirements are lower than ever.

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