[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Unit movement

[Marko Lindqvist <caz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 iquin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Ideally, the client should check the validity of a goto
> request before sending it to server. Any error message
> to the user should be produced by the client.

 That would mean that whenever rules change both server and client
have to be changed. Changes would also lead to backward compatibility
problems more easily.

> (Not failing assertion as what it does now when a nasty
> client try to switch to an invalid government!!!!!).

 Really? This should be fixed. Someone should go through all
server side assertions in order to make sure client can't force them.
Some (or just one?) such assertions are fixed since 1.11.4.


 Caz

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