Wine Launcher 404

[Alathon]

Might also be a wine spesific bug with gecko (See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/580)

I have hit the new issue as well; before the patch, launcher worked fine with known config file workarounds (BrowserType 2, CutsceneMovieOpening 1). After patch encountered a new issue, 404 HTTPS system error popup when starting launcher.

A bunch of users are hitting the same new issue as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...4_errors_when/

Here's what it looks like:



(edited: realized there was more information at the bottom of the linked post)

[oleerik]

That was an older issue which was resolved for most (all?) Linux/WINE users. I have hit the new issue as well; before the patch, launcher worked fine with known config file workarounds (BrowserType 2, CutsceneMovieOpening 1). After patch encountered a new issue, 404 HTTPS system error popup when starting launcher.

A bunch of users are hitting the same new issue as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...4_errors_when/

Here's what it looks like:

Indeed, but I'm talking about the new bug.

A quote from the link: I think they're passing https://frontier.ffxiv.com/version_4_0_win and version_4_0_win/index.html as arguments and wine is supposed to cut out version_4_0_win from the first argument.
If that's the case, then it's potentially a wine-bug, depending on how/where/what wine is actually supposed to do. At least it sounds like something a simple wine-patch should be able to fix, in theory?

[ShiningWolf]

Indeed, but I'm talking about the new bug.

A quote from the link: I think they're passing https://frontier.ffxiv.com/version_4_0_win and version_4_0_win/index.html as arguments and wine is supposed to cut out version_4_0_win from the first argument.
If that's the case, then it's potentially a wine-bug, depending on how/where/what wine is actually supposed to do. At least it sounds like something a simple wine-patch should be able to fix, in theory?

It should honestly be a simple case of substring trimming on the WINE side of things if Square refuses to fix it, but it would probably be a very specific fix and cause problems any time the URL changed.
To be honest, I don't understand why the launcher has to be a web page at all. Why couldn't it be a proper application, so we wouldn't need to deal with this?

[oleerik]

It should honestly be a simple case of substring trimming on the WINE side of things if Square refuses to fix it, but it would probably be a very specific fix and cause problems any time the URL changed.
To be honest, I don't understand why the launcher has to be a web page at all. Why couldn't it be a proper application, so we wouldn't need to deal with this?

Yeah, it's a good question. Somehow launchers for a lot of mmos truly suck.

It would be interesting to see someone making the custom wine fix (substring trimming) to see that it would actually resolve the issue though, in case this issue is deeper than expected. Sadly I do not possess the technical competence to even considering patching wine.

[Alathon]

Indeed, but I'm talking about the new bug.

Yeah, that was my error; I didn't scroll down far enough.