Game Server

Flashpoint Game Server is a specialized proxy and web game server written in Go. The server acts as a local proxy that intercepts HTTP/HTTPS requests and serves content from archived game data stored in ZIP files.

All technologies uses the Game Server as a proxy. This means all the web-requests will be forwarded to this server.

Technical stuff

The server starts two HTTP listeners bound to 127.0.0.1

• 22500 - the proxy listener for applications

• 22501 - internal HTTP Proxy

Request flow

Game requests `http://example.com/path/file.swf` . Proxy rewrites it to `http://127.0.0.1:22501/content/example.com/path/file.swf`. Internally traffic on 22501 is forwarded to the ZipFS server which responds with content from the gamezip-file on disk.

If the ZipFS server is unable to handle the response the traffic is forwarded to legacy webserver on port 22600.

Flowchart showing the request flow from application through gamezip server.