Hey! If you'd rather not set one up yourself you'll likely need to rent a VPS from a service provider. I use OVH.com - but there are several. Try googling "VPS".

It should cost around $10 a month to start - at this price the VPS won't be able to handle much, just make sure the browser tab is minimized after the game's running and you'll be able to do your testing. I wouldn't recommend upgrading the VPS until you need to.

You're free to configure the VPS with an OS of your choice. Mine is using a variation of Linux, and I have remote desktop + chrome installed on it which allows me to go in and navigate to the site. Most service providers support teams will help you get this setup if you're having trouble.

For anyone interested, I guess one way to be sure is to use custom tags with the identifier attached. Its messy and I'm not even sure if it's necessary but it's a workaround:

Call getUsername(player.account)

+ function: On "getUsername"

-> ajax: Send AJAX request with tag "getUsername_" & function.Param(0))

+ ajax: On any completed

-> json: Load content from ajax.LastData

//tokenize the tag to get the tag name

----+ System: tokenat(ajax.Tag,0,"_") = "getUsername"

//tokenize the tag again to get the account name

--------+ player: account = tokenat(ajax.Tag,1,"_")

---------> player: Set account to json.At("data.username")

Hey R0J0hound, thanks for the reply. It hasn't happened in tests - it's just something I thought about.

It definitely seems like it could be an issue down the road if the game ever achieves 100+ players or so, where they're all talking to the server at the same time, and the servers making the requests for them.

In my example, if the AJAX request uses the tag "getUsername", the corresponding condition "AJAX on "getUsername" completed" may not actually be tied to the initial request, but rather the first incoming response with the tag "getUsername".

I'm worried that because the time it takes to send and receive a response varies for every request that goes out, it might mix things up (eventually).

I noticed something called an "X-Request ID" in the response headers, I'm wondering if the AJAX plugin takes this x-request ID into account in order to validate the request is a match once "on getUsername completed" fires.

I'm working on a multiplayer game. When a player logs in the server gets a message and sends an AJAX request to my webserver. When the request is completed, the server loads ajax.lastData and return the username to the player.

I'm wondering if two players were to login at roughly the same time, might it be possible that the server ends up swapping the players usernames?

Scenario:

1. Player A and B login and send message to server
2. Server sends AJAX request for Player A's username
3. Server sends AJAX request for Player B's username
4. AJAX request for Player B's username ends up getting received first
5. Server sets Player A's username to "Player B" (mistaking Player A for Player B)
6. AJAX request for Player A's username is received second
7. Server sets Player B's username to "Player A" (mistaking Player B for Player A)

Thanks,

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