This is desirable mainly because libpng is maintained and pnglite is
not. pnglite was last updated in 2007 (15 years ago) and probably has a
lot of security vulnerabilities.
libpng is an actively maintained library also used by browsers like
Firefox or Chromium, so it's less likely to contain security
vulnerabilities, also it's more likely to be packaged by Linux
distributions.
Summary
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The idea of this is that clients will not have to ping each server for
server infos which takes long, leaks the client's IP address even to
servers the user does not join and is a DoS vector of the game servers
for attackers.
For the Internet, DDNet and KoG tab, the server list is entirely fetched
from the master server, filtering out servers that don't belong into the
list.
The favorites tab is also supposed to work that way, except for servers
that are marked as "also ping this server if it's not in the master
server list".
The LAN tab continues to broadcast the server info packet to find
servers in the LAN.
How does it work?
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The client ships with a list of master server list URLs. On first start,
the client checks which of these work and selects the fastest one.
Querying the server list is a HTTP GET request on that URL. The
response is a JSON document that contains server infos, server addresses
as URLs and an approximate location.
It can also contain a legacy server list which is a list of bare IP
addresses similar to the functionality the old master servers provided
via UDP. This allows us to backtrack on the larger update if it won't
work out.
Lost functionality
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(also known as user-visible changes)
Since the client doesn't ping each server in the list anymore, it has no
way of knowing its latency to the servers.
This is alleviated a bit by providing an approximate location for each
server (continent) so the client only has to know its own location for
approximating pings.
The actual work will be fixing those or at least
NOLINT(clang-analyzer-optin.cplusplus.VirtualCall) them so we can enable
this. Disable checks that we don't want.
Exclude external directory from clang-tidy.
Edgar
