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#4 Setinfo string length overflow

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nobody
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9
2007-07-24
2007-07-24
daniel
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TF has many useless aliases and settings which add on to a player's growing setinfo, which in turn finally kick the player from server.

Some solutions for this are stuffing the player with the following:

setinfo msg ""
setinfo noaim ""

Furthermore, emodel and pmodel are no longer needed. Anyone who wants to cheat can easily cheat and have correct e/p models. Therefore, setinfo pmodel "" and setinfo emodel "" could be used.

Next, some people have both a password field and spectator field in their setinfo. So for example, if a player is connected to a server as a player, and has a spectator field, we can force setinfo spectator "". We shouldn't do this the other way around, though.

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  • daniel

    daniel - 2007-07-24
    • priority: 5 --> 9
     
  • daniel

    daniel - 2007-09-21

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    also, there are TF setinfos for which abbreviates exist. The mod can maybe detect a user's setinfo and stuff him the abbreviation.

    exec_class -> ec
    classhelp -> ch
    sbar_size -> sbs
    sbar_res -> sbr

     

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