World of Warcraft AddOn Syncing App: Beta Testers wanted!

[Lucas]

Looks good! I play on a PC and a MacBook Pro. I'll try it out and see how it works! Thanks for such a great addon!

[HawkMan]

Did you click the Logon button via the client? If so, that's your fault.. I never ever log in via external clients.

No, he probably got suckered in by one of the millions of "blizzard" mails :)

[treemonster]

No, he probably got suckered in by one of the millions of "blizzard" mails :)

tbh you can do everything right and get hacked in a service as targetted as wow. never fall for phishing mails, use a different unique email with a unique pwd for every single site and service you use, have anti keylogger apps running, scan your computer with av and anti malware apps every single day, browse the net on your mac and play games on your pc, change your pwd for every single service you use weekly to a random combo of letters numbers and ascii symbols, so on and so forth, and you can still get hacked.

i've seen people do all of the above and get hacked in a targetted mmo.

judging by that article in BPN today about itunes, itunes customers are about to learn that lesson too.

really aside from getting a vaildator or w/.e(brain fart) from blizz, nothing is going to stop hackers from hacking your account if they really want to. the best a company like blizz can do is have the best cs in the industry and times for dealing with the hacks and getting your account back to you and restored.

but the amount of silly **** about games or services that are highly targetted are hilarious. and most are not close to the quality of what happens when your wow account gets hacked(which is only second to credit card companies dealing with fraud).

[firey]

So, I decided to tackle the downloader thing just cause.. and I got it working properly (im at work so I can't test it), just kinda for testing and such, what it does is loads up the curse page, you pick the addon you want from it, and it will do all the naviagtion and start the download link (purely based on the site source). It has no .ZIP extraction, but will (technically) work to get the latest versions of each addon from curse.

[Snowl]

Can't dl :(

[HawkMan]

changing your password doesn't really increase your security, you'd usually be more secure having a good password that you don't change, or change infrequently or when you think someone might know it for some reason due to a site being hacked or something, and overly complex password could also leave you less secure since you either need it in a password locker or similar.

validators are fairly useless though, yeah, they may make you more secure, but they also leave you with an overly complex way to log in to all their services so it takes twice as long can still be bypassed, especially by a social engineering hacker and and risks locking yourself out if you lose it, it runs out of power, it breaks, of you use your phone and it breaks or any number of situations. (and yes I had it on my android phone, and it annoyed the hell out of me, and then the phone broke, and it annoyed the hell out of me even more).

some people do get brute forced on WoW sure, and some get their password stolen by other ways like WiFi sniffing and other fun things. but 99.9% of the time, it's the phising mails, even the fake ones without the blizzard graphics all over.

[treemonster]

with the curse client i basically start it up and go to the curse site for wow addons then use the download and install with curse client links for addons i want to install.then i close it again. occasionally i open i tup to check for updates to addons curse supports and update from within the client.

it has no ads inside the client, and i don't see an option to log into wow through it.

as for the Op adding addons download support from sites like curse, that's a pretty big no no in the addon/mod scene. some of these addons get paid a % of ad revenue from hits to their add on page on these sites, some ask for donations. it would be nice for sure, but you'd really have to get permission and support from the sites like curse and the addon makers.

i still think it's great for what it is though. i would try it if i played wow on more than a single pc.

changing your password doesn't really increase your security, you'd usually be more secure having a good password that you don't change, or change infrequently or when you think someone might know it for some reason due to a site being hacked or something, and overly complex password could also leave you less secure since you either need it in a password locker or similar.

validators are fairly useless though, yeah, they may make you more secure, but they also leave you with an overly complex way to log in to all their services so it takes twice as long can still be bypassed, especially by a social engineering hacker and and risks locking yourself out if you lose it, it runs out of power, it breaks, of you use your phone and it breaks or any number of situations. (and yes I had it on my android phone, and it annoyed the hell out of me, and then the phone broke, and it annoyed the hell out of me even more).

some people do get brute forced on WoW sure, and some get their password stolen by other ways like WiFi sniffing and other fun things. but 99.9% of the time, it's the phising mails, even the fake ones without the blizzard graphics all over.

i agree except for the phsiing mails thing. i got hacked without falling for them, my weak spot was a only half decent pwd(that used to be considered fairly strong).

although i do suppose there are people that fall for the phsishing mails, and occasionally i get one that's very high quality. especially if a person has never seen an official wow/blizz email before, which includes your original wow login right at the top.

[HawkMan]

Curse has the option to start the game, but it just starts the launcher and never sees your password

[iKenndac]

Argh, fail at life! Download should work now - sorry!

Also, can we please try and stop this thread derailing into a discussion about Curse? Please? I'm not the boss of anyone, and regret posting that.

[firey]

Argh, fail at life! Download should work now - sorry!

Also, can we please try and stop this thread derailing into a discussion about Curse? Please?

Well.. depends on the discussion about curse :p What I'm doing could add a lot of functionality to your app...

[threesixtyflip]

Downloaded, it seems to be running well so far :)

[Lexcyn]

Downloaded and installed it but keep getting this error:

Sync failed with the error: Sync source in use by another machine.

I've tried running as admin and still the same. Any ideas?

[iKenndac]

Sync failed with the error: Sync source in use by another machine.

To fix this, find your Sync source folder (in Dropbox it's in the TeleportAddons/TeleportAddons Sync Store.teleportAddonsStore Folder, if not it's in the folder you created on your filesystem) and you'll find a file called TeleportAddonsSyncLock. If you delete that, the problem will go away. It's normally caused when a sync is abnormally halted for some reason.

If you can make it consistently happen, could you email in some step-by-step instructions and a little about about where you're syncing to? Thanks!

[Elliott]

Interesting. :D I'm going to give this a run. I like that it doesn't use any symlink trickery.

[Lexcyn]

To fix this, find your Sync source folder (in Dropbox it's in the TeleportAddons/TeleportAddons Sync Store.teleportAddonsStore Folder, if not it's in the folder you created on your filesystem) and you'll find a file called TeleportAddonsSyncLock. If you delete that, the problem will go away. It's normally caused when a sync is abnormally halted for some reason.

If you can make it consistently happen, could you email in some step-by-step instructions and a little about about where you're syncing to? Thanks!

I'm trying to sync with DropBox for the first time ... nothing special. No matter what I do it always gives me that error. I should also mention the application did not create any folders in my DropBox account. If it helps, I am running Windows 7 64-bit.

[Shaun N.]

Gonna give this a try later, seems like a good Prog iKenndac thanks

[iKenndac]

I'm trying to sync with DropBox for the first time ... nothing special. No matter what I do it always gives me that error. I should also mention the application did not create any folders in my DropBox account. If it helps, I am running Windows 7 64-bit.

Hmm, odd - I'm developing under Win7 64-bit!

It looks like it's not getting write access to Dropbox and displaying the wrong error. Would you mind going to Dropbox.com and looking in the "My Apps" section of the Account page? It should list Teleport AddOns and say is has "Full Dropbox" access.

[Lexcyn]

Yup I checked that too and it does have full access.

[vip]

I shared this link via IRC on EFnet #WoW and on Freenode #wowhead channels :) hope you don't mind

[iKenndac]

I've just uploaded Beta 2 for Windows, which fixes the problems with Dropbox syncing that Lexcyn was having.

You can download it from the link at the top of this thread, or click the "Check for Updates" button in the application - it should download and install the update for you.

I shared this link via IRC on EFnet #WoW and on Freenode #wowhead channels :) hope you don't mind

Thanks! The more the merrier! :)

[firey]

out of curiosity.. what language did you code this in? The C# Curse.com downloader/addon updater i'm coding is nearing completion.. if that languages match, I think it would be pretty slick to add it in.

[iKenndac]

C#. However, I'm not comfortable adding code that breaks Curse's Terms of Service in my application.

Curse's client may be full of ads and crappy, but the data and catalogue is theirs. I'm not in the business of scraping other people's content illegitimately.

[firey]

C#. However, I'm not comfortable adding code that breaks Curse's Terms of Service in my application.

Curse's client may be full of ads and crappy, but the data and catalogue is theirs. I'm not in the business of scraping other people's content illegitimately.

Fair enough, I can understand and respect that.

I looked and can't find anything about downloading from their servers. As nothing will be sold, claimed as mine, and simply automates a process as opposed to users clicking through links. If you can find something that talks about downloading please let me know.

From what I can tell, the way I access and process downloads, abides by their use, as it relies entirely on an automated navigation through their website.

[iKenndac]

Fair enough, I can understand and respect that.

However, the hacker/nerd in me is interested in how it works! Let us know in the thread if you choose to share it :-)

[treemonster]

there are no ads in the curse client for non subscribers. :shiftyninja: