0001512: Support "Wad Archive" in Wadseeker

MantisBT - Doomseeker
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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0001512	Doomseeker	[All Projects] Suggestion	public	2013-09-18 14:54	2018-09-29 14:42

Reporter	Zalewa
Assigned To	Zalewa
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Platform		OS		OS Version
Product Version	0.10 Beta
Target Version		Fixed in Version	1.0

Summary	0001512: Support "Wad Archive" in Wadseeker
Description	Add support for this site: 'http://www.wad-archive.com/ [^]' The current "%WADNAME% in URL" trick doesn't work as Wadseeker treats the generated URL as a direct link to the file and stores a HTML page instead of the proper WAD.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2013-09-18 14:54	Zalewa	New Issue
2013-10-20 09:57	underscore	Note Added: 0007441
2014-12-02 03:03	DevilHunter	Note Added: 0011025
2014-12-15 17:39	Zalewa	Note Added: 0011062
2014-12-16 02:21	Blzut3	Note Added: 0011066
2014-12-17 02:49	underscore	Note Added: 0011070
2014-12-17 02:49	underscore	Note Edited: 0011070	bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=11070#r6145
2014-12-17 19:37	Zalewa	Assigned To	=> Zalewa
2014-12-17 19:37	Zalewa	Status	new => assigned
2015-01-21 16:22	Zalewa	Note Added: 0011475
2015-01-21 16:22	Zalewa	Status	assigned => needs testing
2015-01-21 16:24	Zalewa	Note Edited: 0011475	bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=11475#r6486
2015-03-22 20:07	Zalewa	Status	needs testing => resolved
2015-03-22 20:07	Zalewa	Fixed in Version	=> 1.0
2015-03-22 20:07	Zalewa	Resolution	open => fixed
2018-09-29 14:42	WubTheCaptain	Status	resolved => closed

Notes

Excerpts from e-mails I've exchanged with WAD-archive's webmaster:

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I have set up'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/<filename>. [^]' I have made it so that it only searches the filenames in the database. If <filename> ends in pk3 or wad then it will search for both 'filename.wad' and 'filename.zip'. If the <filename> ends in .zip then the extensions zip, wad and pk3 will be searched for. The searches are case insensitive.

'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/dwango5.wad [^]'
'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/dwango5.zip [^]'
'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/DWANGO5.WAD [^]'
'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/doom1.wad [^]'

Optionally it can be filtered to an IWAD or source port using the URL parameters 'port' and 'iwad'. The valid values for 'port' are (more may be added in the future):

DOOM
DOOM2
ZDOOM
HERETIC
HEXEN
BOOM
GZDOOM
STRIFE
LEGACY
ETERNITY
BETA
DOOMSDAY
UNKNOWN
EDGE
MAC
SKULLTAG
ZANDRONUM

(SKULLTAG and ZANDRONUM are treated as the same value. However the API will only return the value SKULLTAG for both)

For 'iwad' the valid values are:

DOOM
DOOM2
HERETIC
HEXEN
STRIFE
BETA
UNKNOWN
TNT
PLUTONIA

If 'port' or 'iwad' is used then it will filter to that value and 'UNKNOWN' because the database isn't 100% complete for these values. I can remove this part if you wish.

'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/dwango5.wad?port=DOOM2 [^]'
'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/dwango5.wad?iwad=DOOM2 [^]'

The values for type are 'PWAD', 'IWAD', 'UNKNOWN' or 'PK3', however most pk3 files have 'UNKNOWN' as their type . Any commercial IWAD has been filtered and won't be returned.

Bad URLs can be reported with'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/missing/<base64 [^]' encoded URL>

'http://www.wad-archive.com/wadseeker/missing/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5nb29nbGUuY29t [^]'

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I do have one request if you do go ahead with including the API in wadseeker, is that if wadseeker grabs a download link that 404s (or fails in general) that it could report that back? This way it can help clean up the dead links in the archive.