Ioquake3 server with sv_dlURL and HTTPS

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Hi! I’ve set up an ioquake3 server an my raspberry pi with the cvar

set sv_dlURL "https://myserver.tld/~ioquake3/"

But if I try to join, I get the Error “Unknown protocol error 0”. The URL works withouth problems and you can access the pk3 files on “myserver.tld/~ioquake3/baseq3/” with a browser.

Is it possible to force ioquake3 to use HTTPS?

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I’ve “kinda” fixed it with not forcing apache to https. It’s not something neccessary with priority, but imho it would be nice if ioquake3 support https download of gamefiles.

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Supported protocols depends on cURL library. For Windows this is bundled with ioquake3 but for other platforms it’s entirely system/distribution dependent.

If I remember correctly updating from the ioquake3 2009 Windows stable release to a build from the last 6 years will add HTTPS support. Automatic (test) builds are current down so it has to be compiled from source though.