Timetables not Updating in Wine

For a while now, I have been unable to update timetables via the refresher when running in Wine. My previous solution involved installing the loader in Windows just to grab the latest versions of the timetables, copy them to the proper directory on my Linux partition, and then uninstall the loader, which, as you can guess, was very long-winded. Simulations seemed to update perfectly, so I did some investigation as to why this was. I have had some promising results!

It seems that when the refresher is run through wine, it is not converting spaces in URLs into %20s. This causes update requests to fail on any file containing a space as it automatically assumes the filename ends at that first space. This then results in a 404 being sent back to the refresher. Since spaces only ever appear in the filenames for timetables, not simulations, the update only ever seems to fail on timetables.

I know running SimSig in wine is not supported, but thought I’d just throw it out there anyway. Sending a GET request via curl from the command line, or the HTTPRequester plugin in Firefox, results in the timetable being downloaded correctly.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings! :laugh:

Mark (Gwasanaethau)

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I was wondering, would it be possible for you to give a few more details about how to do this?

I ask because I'm playing Coventry with the latest version of the sim, after extra areas of control were added, but with what appears to be the original timetable, which is missing those areas.

Thanks!

Thanks Geoff, and no problem TUT.

Essentially you can just use curl (or probably wget instead, but I don’t know the correct options for that) from the terminal. I have added a few extra lines to make it more streamlined.

Firstly, copy the following lines of code into a new file named timetable-refresher.sh :

#!/bin/bash

FILENAME="${1}"
HTTPNAME="${FILENAME// /%20}"
DIRNAME="$(basename "${PWD}")"

curl -# -H 'Accept:*/*' -H 'Host:www.SimSig.co.uk' -H 'User-Agent:Simsigrefresher' "http://www.SimSig.co.uk/SimSigUpdate/files/${DIRNAME}/${HTTPNAME}" -o "${FILENAME}"

Then navigate to the sim’s timetable folder/directory. In your case:
cd ${HOME}/«PATH»/SimSig/Timetables/coventry
…replacing «PATH» with the path of your SimSig installation.
Then start the refresher and note the full name of the timetable that it is trying to download. In your case:
Coventry 20091015 (0445 start).WTT
Then run your script with the timetable as an argument, eg:
bash timetable-refresher.sh 'Coventry 20091015 (0445 start).WTT'
If you want me to talk you through the commands in the script so you know what they do, then just shout and I’ll outline them for you. ;)

Hope this helps you (and anyone else).

Mark (Gwasanaethau)


#!/bin/bash

FILENAME="${1}"
HTTPNAME="${FILENAME// /%20}"
DIRNAME="$(basename "${PWD}")"

curl -# -H 'Accept:*/*' -H 'Host:www.SimSig.co.uk' -H 'User-Agent:Simsigrefresher' "http://www.SimSig.co.uk/SimSigUpdate/files/${DIRNAME}/${HTTPNAME}" -o "${FILENAME}"


" said:


#!/bin/bash

FILENAME="${1}"
HTTPNAME="${FILENAME// /%20}"
DIRNAME="$(basename "${PWD}")"

curl -# -H 'Accept:*/*' -H 'Host:www.SimSig.co.uk' -H 'User-Agent:Simsigrefresher' "http://www.SimSig.co.uk/SimSigUpdate/files/${DIRNAME}/${HTTPNAME}" -o "${FILENAME}"


Isn't that a bit excessive?

You can just
wget "http://www.SimSig.co.uk/SimSigUpdate/files/coventry/Coventry 20091015 (0445 start).WTT"
and that's it, without worrying about headers (Host header WHY???). If you use curl, you have to do the urlencoding though, because (apparently by design) they just don't do it and are happy to send illegal requests.