Finally fixed that pesky network bug with Sandbox mode

[cprince]

Quite perplexing it was, too... but now it works again, after 1,000 years of not working. Sorry about that.

[DD Dtgnoome]

Thanks for your continued support!

[AllyourKitty]

I wondered what the update was.

[phertiker]

Studly.

[Shiηовι]

Is this what the past few little updates have been about? Could you perhaps sticky this thread, and elaborate a little on what was fixed / changed, please?

[cprince]

Aye, good idea. It was a very small change (originally) - it seems that at some point that I missed, normal Java distributions lost some part of the SSL certification chain that would allow them to trust the proper SSL certificate from our www.revengeofthetitans.com domain.

This cert. is perfectly kosher, and you can have a look at it by just surfing over to https://www.revengeofthetitans.com/ep/_connect.php and clicking on the little padlock widget in the URL in most browsers. Somehow inbetween Java updates the ability to recognise it vanished.

So, I've simply included our certificate now in the trusted certificates list of the embedded Java VM we use in our games.

[cprince]

The second update was me updating all the VMs to Java 8 level, which I'd been putting off for a very long time because I was worried about upsetting Mac OS X 10.6 users, for whom it would instantly break everything. But I reckon that 10.6 is now so ancient it's going to be very unlikely to occur, and I can always point any such users back to a test branch of the game which still uses the older VM.

[mania]

Thank you! I can finally login in game sandbox mode.

[kajmaj]

Is it still working? I cannot start the sandbox because of "error getting data from server"

[Shabingus gaming]

i cant use sandbox for some reason having same problems as Kajmai

[Shabingus gaming]

please fix

[Shabingus gaming]

or tell me how to fix it

[cprince]

hm it was working the other day :| it is annoyingly fragile

[Draglorr]

Can i get some fries with my sandbox network issues?