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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, May 7, 2021 05:42 PM UTC:

I modified the sets files to use relative URLs for the value of $dir. I modified some other code to work with relative URLs, and I added code that exits the script with an error if you use a value of $dir that does not begin with a forward slash. So, from now own, $dir should be set only to a relative URL to a directory on this site.

Using relative URLs has a few advantages:

  • Piece URLs will be shorter, using less bandwidth.
  • Insecure http image URLs will no longer be used, since relative URLs will default to secure https URLs.
  • No one will be able to use piece images that are located on another website.

In a related matter, $dir is now an accessible system variable in GAME Code. You may write to it with setsystem or get its value. This is useful for using GAME Code to create and use custom piece sets that are not defined in a PHP file. More details can be found here.


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