Hi,
I recently started renting a KF2 server and have also been working on a community website/forum to go with it. I started off just serving the banner from my web server before I had begun the community site, and the banner had been working just fine.
As part of building the website, I decided to use a LetsEncrypt certificate to allow my site to serve encrypted web traffic. LetsEncrypt is a certificate authority that is fairly new, and their goal is to get as many websites to use HTTPS as possible by making the process of getting them open, automated, and free. They are recognized in most, if not all, major browsers (at least, I know FireFox and Chrome work) as a valid CA.
So, now that my site uses HTTPS, the welcome page doesn't come up. I went into my website's config and removed a rewrite rule that redirects all non-https requests to use https instead of plaintext, and that fixed the problem. When I did this, however, I forgot to change the game server configs back to http. Turns out, if you put in an https URL for BannerLink, the game client simply won't honor it, and ends up asking for the insecure version of the page anyway.
My question is, will KF2 ever support loading the banner from a secure site? If not, then I will have to try to find a place that I can put the image other than my own webserver, because I can't think of a way to have that rewrite rule force everything except for requests for that one image to use https. I would have thought that the game client would have just used webkit or something similar to request and render the banner.
If https is supported, is it that the Let's Encrypt CA isn't?
I recently started renting a KF2 server and have also been working on a community website/forum to go with it. I started off just serving the banner from my web server before I had begun the community site, and the banner had been working just fine.
As part of building the website, I decided to use a LetsEncrypt certificate to allow my site to serve encrypted web traffic. LetsEncrypt is a certificate authority that is fairly new, and their goal is to get as many websites to use HTTPS as possible by making the process of getting them open, automated, and free. They are recognized in most, if not all, major browsers (at least, I know FireFox and Chrome work) as a valid CA.
So, now that my site uses HTTPS, the welcome page doesn't come up. I went into my website's config and removed a rewrite rule that redirects all non-https requests to use https instead of plaintext, and that fixed the problem. When I did this, however, I forgot to change the game server configs back to http. Turns out, if you put in an https URL for BannerLink, the game client simply won't honor it, and ends up asking for the insecure version of the page anyway.
My question is, will KF2 ever support loading the banner from a secure site? If not, then I will have to try to find a place that I can put the image other than my own webserver, because I can't think of a way to have that rewrite rule force everything except for requests for that one image to use https. I would have thought that the game client would have just used webkit or something similar to request and render the banner.
If https is supported, is it that the Let's Encrypt CA isn't?