💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jun 30, 2022 12:02 PM UTC:
It appears that access to the render engine is now permanently boken for everyone using a browser with standard security settings, because of the move to https. It therefore becomes important to migrate the engine to the CVP website. So can we revive this effort?
If I knew what Linux version exactly is powering the CVP server, I could install it myself in a VM, and have a try at compiling the rendering engine. I seem to recall it is some version of CentOS (although that is not mentioned in this discussion?). The renderer is based on XBoard's board rendering code. I do think XBoard is available for CentOS, which means it must be possible to compile it, or figure out how it was patched by the maintainer to make it possible to compile it.
It appears that access to the render engine is now permanently boken for everyone using a browser with standard security settings, because of the move to https. It therefore becomes important to migrate the engine to the CVP website. So can we revive this effort?
If I knew what Linux version exactly is powering the CVP server, I could install it myself in a VM, and have a try at compiling the rendering engine. I seem to recall it is some version of CentOS (although that is not mentioned in this discussion?). The renderer is based on XBoard's board rendering code. I do think XBoard is available for CentOS, which means it must be possible to compile it, or figure out how it was patched by the maintainer to make it possible to compile it.