"Feature" request about airspaces HOT 4 OPEN

Hi @TolleyCoding , thanks for your feedback.

The thing is, IP set aside, there is nothing that can tell your aircraft apart from the others, so if you want to use the menu to change your plane's icon for instance, you need to see your IP on there. Many people use the same transponder code.

I'm bound to a limitation of X-Plane that cannot send "custom" data to me along with the location data. If it could, I'd just provide a code for people to enter in X-Plane, after they'd created something like an Airspaces account, and I'd be able to display a username instead of the IP.

But I can't, yet :/

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Can the IP address in XP11 also be an URL (not near my PC so can't check)? Including URL params? That way you could add something like ?username=user&apiKey=xyz That way you'd know who is trying to connect if every user has an account on your site.

Anyway, I wouldn't show the full IP address no matter what. Just the last few bits should be enough to identify if the app is tracking you.

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I could just hash + salt the IPs. Unicity would be kept while protecting all IPs.

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and @NoPizzaNoGlory I just checked: unfortunately X-Plane sends data using the UDP protocol, which is not HTTP and doesn't have a notion of URL path (or params).

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