What Is Client Side and Server Side?

Wolfie · 02-04-2016

What does it mean? From what I understand about client side, it's where only you can see whatever's on your screen right? Like switching hat files in iFile or a file manager; only you can see the hat you switched. That is client side, correct?

Server side is where everyone can see the same thing right?

Googled both of these but it only show web development related things.

Yog · 02-04-2016

idk much about it but afaik anything serverside is running on the npc server, and anything client side is running on your device.

Pretty sure iClassic doesn't have much clientside because the original devices it was run on couldn't handle much, and client side scripts can be modified for cheating.

Wolfie · 02-04-2016

Posted by Yog

idk much about it but afaik anything serverside is running on the npc server, and anything client side is running on your device.

Pretty sure iClassic doesn't have much clientside because the original devices it was run on couldn't handle much, and client side scripts can be modified for cheating.

ohhh that makes more sense now

thanks

Areo · 02-04-2016

Posted by Yog

idk much about it but afaik anything serverside is running on the npc server, and anything client side is running on your device.

Pretty sure iClassic doesn't have much clientside because the original devices it was run on couldn't handle much, and client side scripts can be modified for cheating.

Yeah, the server handles the pk system as well from what I know. It also handles the baddies. Leaderboard too I think.

Anything that could be abused badly will be given to the server to handle. Such as how, if you were hacking, you can edit your speed but you cannot hack your damage output.

That among others reasons.

-from my understanding of Graal's code.

The Doctor · 02-04-2016

An easy way to differentiate client-side and server-side is by using an example. Say the Graal list server had a list of every single account and their password.

This data would definitely not be on the client side, because if it were, every single client would be able to access the account information.

So why isn't everything on the server? Well, a lot of information is. The server, in a sense, serves information to a client. Whatever information the server sends to the client can be stored by the client. However, the server won't send the client every single file; that would be impractical (it would take up all of your phone's space). This is why some information must be stored only on the server (e.g. account information, sensitive info, and large files).

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Wolfie Terra Branford Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Next to you Posts: 3,284	What Is Client Side and Server Side? What does it mean? From what I understand about client side, it's where only you can see whatever's on your screen right? Like switching hat files in iFile or a file manager; only you can see the hat you switched. That is client side, correct? Server side is where everyone can see the same thing right? Googled both of these but it only show web development related things.

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Yog Registered User Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 4,468	idk much about it but afaik anything serverside is running on the npc server, and anything client side is running on your device. Pretty sure iClassic doesn't have much clientside because the original devices it was run on couldn't handle much, and client side scripts can be modified for cheating.

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The Doctor Registered User Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Blacksburg, Virginia Posts: 5,459	An easy way to differentiate client-side and server-side is by using an example. Say the Graal list server had a list of every single account and their password. This data would definitely not be on the client side, because if it were, every single client would be able to access the account information. So why isn't everything on the server? Well, a lot of information is. The server, in a sense, serves information to a client. Whatever information the server sends to the client can be stored by the client. However, the server won't send the client every single file; that would be impractical (it would take up all of your phone's space). This is why some information must be stored only on the server (e.g. account information, sensitive info, and large files).