[Bug 28268] New: Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

Summary: Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.27
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wininet
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Ashen empires seems to dislike the current implementation of wininet (and the
built in IE - had to use IE7 + native wininet for it to work)

Here is a link to the infolog:
http://pastebin.com/JdarGjEh

[Bug 28268] Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #1 from Austin English  2011-09-06 04:16:24 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Ashen empires seems to dislike the current implementation of wininet (and the
> built in IE - had to use IE7 + native wininet for it to work)
>
> Here is a link to the infolog:
> http://pastebin.com/JdarGjEh

Please attach it here, don't use external sites.

[Bug 28268] Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #2 from Liam Dawe  2011-09-06 05:10:58 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=36250)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=36250)
The terminal output to show the fixmes

[Bug 28268] Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #3 from Austin English  2013-11-13 16:51:08 CST ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 2 years.
Is this still an issue in current (1.7.6 or newer) wine? If so, please attach
the terminal output in 1.7.6 (see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).

[Bug 28268] Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #4 from Liam Dawe  ---
Created attachment 47858
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47858
Newest log in 1.7.13

[Bug 28268] Wininet doesn't know what to do with Ashen Empires

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #5 from Liam Dawe  ---
It still happens, attached a new log, this was in 1.7.13.

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|                            |download
                URL|                            |http://www.ashenempires.com
                   |                            |/download.aspx
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Summary|Wininet doesn't know what   |Ashen Empires login fails
                   |to do with Ashen Empires    |

--- Comment #6 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Liam,

I can't reproduce your 'success' with native components.

Prerequisite: 'winetricks -q ie7 wininet'

The login fails, 'Unable to connect to login server' is reported.

There is an application log file 'Pixel Mine Launcher.log' in app folder:

--- snip ---
Pixel Mine Launcher Start
...
CLauncherClientDlg::OnNavigateComplete
[http://login.pixelminegames.com/App_Images/Background.htm]
CLauncherClientDlg::OnNavigateComplete
CLauncherClientDlg::OnDocumentComplete
[http://login.pixelminegames.com/App_Images/Background.htm]
CLauncherClientDlg::DoDataExchange
CLauncherClientDlg::OnDocumentComplete
CLauncherClientDlg::OnBnClickedButtonLogin
QueryInfoStatusCode != HTTP_STATUS_OK, 400 was returned instead.
--- snip ---

What are your exact steps to reproduce?

Regards

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #7 from Liam Dawe  ---
I don't get what you're asking. Are you saying it works for you?

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #8 from Liam Dawe  ---
The previous work-around no longer works I just tested it. So i will need to
update the app to Garbage as it can't be run now.

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #9 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Liam,

--- quote ---
The previous work-around no longer works I just tested it. So i will need to
update the app to Garbage as it can't be run now.
--- quote ---

yes, that's what I meant ... even with native IE7 + wininet the login fails.
It returns HTTP Error 400 Bad request.
Can you verify this client works on Windows/VM?

Regards

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #10 from Liam Dawe  ---
Yes it does work on Windows as expected.

[Bug 28268] Ashen Empires login fails

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #11 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Liam,

using 'wireshark' I captured the part after clicking login button in the
launcher:

Client sent:

--- snip ---
POST /OOB.ashx HTTP/1.0
Host: login.pixelminegames.com
Content-Length: 308
User-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=zkim2b55mbw5gx55b42asgqq

<some encrypted data>
--- snip ---

Server answer:

--- snip ---
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Connection: close
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:30:26 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 0
--- snip ---

It might be related to the encrypted content gathered at the client side.
I could try to figure out the data before it gets encrypted but it might be
useful to figure out a working recipe and subsequently capture at least one
'successful' login session to know what to look out for...

Regards

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
          Component|wininet                     |iphlpapi
            Summary|Ashen Empires login fails   |PixelMine Ashen Empires
                   |                            |Launcher login fails
                   |                            |(server-side ASP.NET code
                   |                            |can't handle more than 5
                   |                            |host adapter MAC addresses
                   |                            |returned from
                   |                            |GetAdaptersInfo in auth
                   |                            |request)
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #12 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Liam,

I found the problem - it's not even a Wine bug.

Additionally to the authentication info (username, password and some other
thing I couldn't quickly identify), the MAC addresses from all host network
adapters are encoded in the 'POST' request.

The launcher uses GetAdaptersInfo() API to fetch the adapters info.
It filters out all MIB_IF_TYPE_LOOPBACK type adapters and converts the MAC
addresses from the remaining adapters to hex-strings before encoding the whole
POST content.

Unfortunately there seems to be a hard limit on the server-side ASP.NET code
(request handler) which just discards the requests if too many addresses found.
The 'HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request' was not really helpful, I had to do some testing
to figure out the limit.
Up to 5 adapter addresses are allowed until it responds with error code 400.
Many Linux machines are multi NIC/homed and in my case 7 adapter addresses
(including virtual NIC's) were being sent with the request.

After limiting it to 5 adapters by changing iphlpapi (or at runtime with the
debugger), the login worked.

As already said, this is not the fault of Wine but a server side limit.
Some guy writing the ASP.NET server code didn't think to deep about this
(probably a matter of pay hehe).

You could modify Wine code to limit the number of adapter info structures
returned by iphlpapi.GetAdaptersInfo() but I would advise against it because
this influences Wine's behaviour globally, potentially affecting other
software.

Options:

1) Notify the vendor and hoping for a fix on their side

2) Limit the number of 'seen' adapters locally with Linux tools (if/ifconfig)

3) Patch the installer itself.

This works (tested) but unfortunately triggers the auto-update functionality of
the launcher each time (checksum). The patch would be reverted after restart
unless more measures are taken - which qualifies for hacking.

In general the launcher works pretty fine with builtins.
There was no native override needed - another testimony that Wine evolved.

Regards

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #13 from Liam Dawe  ---
So there is no way for Wine to work with this game without the user editing
something basically?

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

--- Comment #14 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello Liam,

--- quote ---
So there is no way for Wine to work with this game without the user editing
something basically?
--- quote ---

yes, it won't work out of the box unless the vendor fixes the server side
handling of the auth request to allow for more adapter MAC addresses.

Not sure why they need to collect this data .. maybe for identifying/banning
purpose (knowledgeable people can easily circumvent this anyway).

Regards

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

joaopa  changed:

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--- Comment #15 from joaopa  ---
Anatasius, don't you think this bug should be close as WONTFIX?

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
                URL|http://www.ashenempires.com |https://web.archive.org/web
                   |/download.aspx              |/20140826105045/http://www.
                   |                            |pixelminegames.com/download
                   |                            |s/Pixel%20Mine%20Installer.
                   |                            |exe

--- Comment #16 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello folks,

resolving 'INVALID' here.

The issue is still present on the ASP server-side scripts. One can use any
(invalid) user/pass on login page to test - just the POST data matters here.

With two NICs:

--- snip ---
$ pwd
/home/focht/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Pixel Mine

$ WINEDEBUG=+wininet wine ./PixelMineLauncher.exe
...
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Host"
(L"login.pixelminegames.com")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Content-Length"
(L"160")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"User-Agent"
(L"Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Cookie"
(L"ASP.NET_SessionId=51noijucz5xjufzlp2j45n45")
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW Request header -> L"POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
160\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=51noijucz5xjufzlp2j45n45\r\n\r\n"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW full request -> "POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
160\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=51noijucz5xjufzlp2j45n45\r\n\r\n\xbd\x11\x1b\x1fl\x1dh\x1bj\x19\x01\x07w\x05"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders -->
0009:trace:wininet:read_line returning "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders version [L"HTTP/1.1"] status code
[L"200"] status text [L"OK"]
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_ProcessHeader --> L"Status": L"200" - 0xa0000000
...
--- snip ---

With three NICs:

--- snip ---
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Host"
(L"login.pixelminegames.com")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Content-Length"
(L"194")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"User-Agent"
(L"Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Cookie"
(L"ASP.NET_SessionId=nuvmnrmyf5iq5j55omqlj145")
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW Request header -> L"POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
194\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=nuvmnrmyf5iq5j55omqlj145\r\n\r\n"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW full request -> "POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
194\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=nuvmnrmyf5iq5j55omqlj145\r\n\r\n\x86*.(Y\x16e\x14g\x12\x14\x10b\x1e\x1d\x17\x1do\x1bh\x19\x07\x07\x0b\x05q\x13\x01\x02\x0f\n\x0c\x0e"...
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders -->
0009:trace:wininet:read_line returning "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders version [L"HTTP/1.1"] status code
[L"200"] status text [L"OK"]
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_ProcessHeader --> L"Status": L"200" - 0xa0000000
--- snip ---

With four NICs:

--- snip ---
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Host"
(L"login.pixelminegames.com")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Content-Length"
(L"228")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"User-Agent"
(L"Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Cookie"
(L"ASP.NET_SessionId=ojiiiijhmhbdxa45nlv4ko3x")
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW Request header -> L"POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
228\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=ojiiiijhmhbdxa45nlv4ko3x\r\n\r\n"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW full request -> "POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
228\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=ojiiiijhmhbdxa45nlv4ko3x\r\n\r\n{\xd7\xd1\xd5\xa2\xd3\xa2\xd1\xac\xdf\xdb\xdd\xa9\xdb\xda\xd2\xc6\xb2\xc4\xb5\xc2\xc2\xc0\xce\xce\xbc"...
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders -->
0009:trace:wininet:read_line returning "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders version [L"HTTP/1.1"] status code
[L"200"] status text [L"OK"]
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_ProcessHeader --> L"Status": L"200" - 0xa0000000
--- snip ---

With more than five NICs:

--- snip ---
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Host"
(L"login.pixelminegames.com")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Content-Length"
(L"296")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"User-Agent"
(L"Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9")
0009:trace:wininet:build_request_header Adding custom header L"Cookie"
(L"ASP.NET_SessionId=is4cj255jiv3mm55dum4semj")
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW Request header -> L"POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
296\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=is4cj255jiv3mm55dum4semj\r\n\r\n"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_HttpSendRequestW full request -> "POST /OOB.ashx
HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: login.pixelminegames.com\r\nContent-Length:
296\r\nUser-Agent: Pixel Mine Launcher Launcher / 2.9\r\nCookie:
ASP.NET_SessionId=is4cj255jiv3mm55dum4semj\r\n\r\n\xd2~z|\rz\tx\x0bf`d\x16baka\x1bo\x1cmkkgi%GUVSVPR_[\.Z\X+FDOD@CC@KNN]KMHN\xb7\xb2\xb5\xb0\xb3\xb2"...
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders -->
0009:trace:wininet:read_line returning "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_GetResponseHeaders version [L"HTTP/1.1"] status code
[L"400"] status text [L"Bad Request"]
0009:trace:wininet:HTTP_ProcessHeader --> L"Status": L"400" - 0xa0000000
--- snip ---

$ sha1sum Pixel\ Mine\ Installer.exe 
97cfde4e26f1144ca22c4dab745552ba985768d3  Pixel Mine Installer.exe

$ du -sh Pixel\ Mine\ Installer.exe 
484K    Pixel Mine Installer.exe

$ wine --version
wine-5.0-rc2

Regards

[Bug 28268] PixelMine Ashen Empires Launcher login fails (server-side ASP.NET code can't handle more than 5 host adapter MAC addresses returned from GetAdaptersInfo in auth request)

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28268

André H.  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #17 from André H.  ---
closing invalid