GitHub - RaphaelIT7/gmod-httpserver

[quartz mesa]

"was bored" is just a flex term to be honest.

[carmine valley]

But it's the reason why I made it. I had nothing to do.

[mint plume]

this sounds incredibly useful, not sure what i'd use it for yet but there must be some usecases

[quartz mesa]

Alternative networking channel, we just talked about it in #next-update . We joked about using a custom HTTP server for ingame networking with HTTP() functions and then it arives like orderd.

[mint plume]

i feel like this would be a big target for ddoses tho

as @shadow summit mentioned in dms, it might be cool if it had a IP whitelist of only connected players, or an option to manually add whitelisted ips etc

[carmine valley]

I will try to add one.

[mint plume]

this could possibly be paired with gm_express, that'd be really sick

[carmine valley]

I created an example for networking stuff(https://github.com/RaphaelIT7/gmod-httpserver/blob/main/examples/httpnet.lua), but I never tried to use gm_express. It could work, but it wouldn't be that fast, because an HTTP request takes from 50 up to 150ms and sometimes a bit more.

[mint plume]

hm

[shadow summit]

while running performance tests for gm_express, I found that HTTP requests started being better (in terms of raw speed) for payloads bigger than ~192kb.

while express is free to use as-is (cloud hosted), you can also self-host it in a docker container.
letting people self-host it using only this dll and lua addons would be pretty cool

[visual canyon]

looks nice, well done!

[open geyser]

But express is almost incomparable to this, express uses edge servers (according to your documentation)

It’s always going to be faster than connecting directly to a gmod server somewhere in the world especially without geo balancing

Also unlike express running any form of direct host on your server just gives people a new surface of attack. Your gmod host may be able to block game attacks etc but chances are it’s not also expecting to have to handle HTTP traffic ontop

This + Proxy is very good, isn’t something that should be ran alone imo

[visual canyon]

most hosts wont allow you to run a http service anyways if they even allow you opening ports at all tho

but this can still be useful for some

[open geyser]

I made a very similar web server a while back using luasockets, and then rewrote it not long ago to use websocket connections only

(Below is literally the only image I have of it on my phone)

That way you can have an upstream gateway/proxy to do the bulk of request validation like authentication and route checking etc

Since originally I was using luasockets and basic flood tests would always crash the server

You want the request to be terminated as soon as possible if it’s just junk, hence why a proxy is so important

This is still good though, I’m just stressing the importance of a middle layer

[sonic flare]

no waaaay this is so awesome

[shadow summit]

for sure, it was just a general rule of thumb I found with bandwidths in the gb range

[shadow summit]

100% agree

[wise cliff]

time for the unholy quaternity of automated chttp tests with lua-runner, gluatest, and httpserver