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Use butler in China

A topic by Ealrann created Jul 24, 2019 Views: 800 Replies: 3
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Hello

I'm in China these days, and I try to use butler to push some project, but for now, it looks impossible. Since China is a really huge pool of game developers, it could be really beneficial for butler to work there (even slowly).

While rather slow, the itch.io app allows me to download games, however butler login often fail, and butler push never finish. Due to the Chinese firewall, the connection to butler server is simply really bad, with probably lot's of lost packets. It's the same for many websites, like github, but I'm still able to upload there.

I don't have too much knowledge in network, but the problem looks like butler reacts too fast to timeouts, and cancel the entire operation (I was only able to push during few seconds). I tried using the http_proxy, mode: it was better, but still not stable enough for butler.


Maybe somebody have a trick to use butler in PRC?

I'm a foreigner living in China and have the same problem. Even using a VPN, I can't push my projects with butler. It was working fine a few years ago but with China changing their great firewall rules every now and then, it's really random. Is there any way to upload from China using Butler ? 

I guess it's because Butler ignores the system proxy. So you can either commit issue on github, or try to set up cmd proxy.

Hm, too complicated to my taste lol. Too bad.