[opensource-dev] Viewer changes for Premium changes

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

On 2020-02-27 12:37 , Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> 2.- Had you*simply*  (this is really trivial, since this is how the
>      viewers and login server already work !) respected the normal
>      protocol, not sending any "account_level_benefits" related info
>      to the viewers not requesting that option on login, there would
>      not have been*any*  problem !
>
>      NOTE THAT IT IS NOT TOO LATE: you could*still*  modify the login
>      server code to comply with the list of the requested options and
>      stop sending the "account_level_benefits" stuff when not requested.
>      This would*instantly*  restore the compatibility with the old
>      viewers, and all you would have to change in the new viewer code
>      is to add:
> 	requested_options.append("account_level_benefits");
>      in LLLoginInstance::constructAuthParams()

That protocol works (and from time to time we employ it) when the change 
is one that can be compatible, but that's not the case here. The account 
levels are not an optional thing, and there never was any way we could 
maintain backward compatibility on the server for viewers that don't get it.

The fact that some incomplete XMLRPC implementations not based on ours 
failed when they shouldn't have isn't something we could have 
anticipated or done anything about.

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