VAM downloads VAR files from hub which are actually HTML error pages without user knowing

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I noticed a lot of corrupt VAR files in my AddonPackages folder and when I examined them, they are actually some error HTML page which is named as original VAR filename (so hard to find without searching for HTML)

I can't attach the problem VARs here as the uploader will not allow the VAR extension

Examples is this from today - I saw loads of errors in VAM log when scene loaded that I couldn't understand about this VAR

Code: 
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\Killer2u.118_LUTpack.1.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\ky1001.PresetLoader.21.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\Luv.Converse_shoes.1.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\maru01.summer_clothes01.2.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\maru01.Summer_Outfit02.2.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\Miki.1940_Glamour_Hair.1.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\MrGiggly.G-Strips.4.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile..ctor (System.IO.FileStream file) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
!> Exception during zip file scan of AddonPackages\Mr_CadillacV8.Set_A.1.var: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipException: Cannot find central directory
  at ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.ZipFile.ReadEntries () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0


I think it was the built in Package Manager "Scan Hub for Missing Packages" feature I used to get these today.

and the actual VAR content is below:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html id="XF" lang="en-US" dir="LTR"
    data-app="public"
    data-template="error"
    data-container-key="xfrmCategory-32"
    data-content-key=""
    data-logged-in="false"
    data-cookie-prefix="xf_"
    data-csrf="1706100290,8ef4bae773f7e44424b8f6c63069d5ac"
    class="has-no-js template-error"
    >
<head>
 
    

 

 
    
 
    
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">

 
 
 

    <title>Oops! We ran into some problems. | Virt-A-Mate Hub</title>

    <link rel="manifest" href="/webmanifest.php">
 
        <meta name="theme-color" content="#141414" />
 

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Virt-A-Mate Hub">
 

 

 
    
 
 
    <meta property="og:site_name" content="Virt-A-Mate Hub" />


 
 
    
 
 
    <meta property="og:type" content="website" />


 
 
    
 
 
 
        <meta property="og:title" content="Oops! We ran into some problems." />
        <meta property="twitter:title" content="Oops! We ran into some problems." />
 


 
 
 
    
 
 
    <meta property="og:url" content="https://hub.virtamate.com/resources/30757/version/39936/download?file=217287" />


 
 

 
 

 


    <link rel="preload" href="/styles/fonts/fa/fa-regular-400.woff2?_v=5.15.3" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" />


    <link rel="preload" href="/styles/fonts/fa/fa-solid-900.woff2?_v=5.15.3" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" />


<link rel="preload" href="/styles/fonts/fa/fa-brands-400.woff2?_v=5.15.3" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin="anonymous" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css.php?css=public%3Anormalize.css%2Cpublic%3Afa.css%2Cpublic%3Acore.less%2Cpublic%3Aapp.less&amp;s=4&amp;l=1&amp;d=1706028608&amp;k=3a8f6c8ea24a92b6f0ac5963a38f231971d721a3" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css.php?css=public%3Aaa_banneradmin_css.less%2Cpublic%3Aaa_cclicense_css.less%2Cpublic%3Aaa_housefly.less%2Cpublic%3Aaa_ppv.less%2Cpublic%3Aaa_resource_warning_css.less%2Cpublic%3Aaa_sbu.less%2Cpublic%3Acxf_advanced_footer.less%2Cpublic%3Anotices.less%2Cpublic%3Aposting_permissions.less%2Cpublic%3Aresource_rejection.less%2Cpublic%3Ateamshare.less%2Cpublic%3Avarcheck.less%2Cpublic%3Aextra.less&amp;s=4&amp;l=1&amp;d=1706028608&amp;k=de559da2355234587d0e2e5f7509b90b8ff52a5d" />

 
        <script src="/js/xf/preamble.min.js?_v=045402bc"></script>
 


 
        <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="https://hubcdn.virtamate.com/logos/favicon-32x32.png" sizes="32x32" />
 
 
</head>
<body data-template="error">

<div class="p-pageWrapper" id="top">





<header class="p-header" id="header">
    <div class="p-header-inner">
        <div class="p-header-content">

            <div class="p-header-logo p-header-logo--image">
                <a href="/">
                    <img src="https://hubcdn.virtamate.com/logos/vam_logo_hub_trans_400x80.png" srcset="https://hubcdn.virtamate.com/logos/vam_logo_hub_trans_800x160.png 2x" alt="Virt-A-Mate Hub"
                        width="" height="" />
                </a>
            </div>

    <div id="aapheadright" class="p-header-logo p-header-logo--image">
        <div class="aavid_wrapper" onmouseover="pauseVid()" onmouseout="playVid()">
            <video class="bannervid" id="aahubvid" src="" title="" muted autoplay></video>

            <div class="aavid_wrapper_text">
                <p id="bannercredits"></p>
            </div>
        </div>

        <a id="aapatlink" href="https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/how-to-officially-get-vam.39231/">
            New to Virt-A-Mate?<br>Click Here to get it!
        </a>
    </div>

 
</div>
</div>
</header>
<script>
    var bannervid = document.getElementById("aahubvid");

    function playVid() {
        bannervid.play();
    }

    function pauseVid() {
        bannervid.pause();
    }
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
        var vids = [];

    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297500-5b95ce6864ed471dcaf153f1f8aa05b0.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135387&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;AshAuryn &amp;quot;Black Dress&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297501-9967946db68295513990321c289d58b6.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135388&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;Damarmau &amp;quot;Ella Dance&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297502-4bfff9070e78e7f4d4ff78111f7d6bd8.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135389&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;Damarmau &amp;quot;Talia Forest&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297503-ab21b71e0cf68092910322a99d079886.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135390&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;Juno &amp;quot;Caprice Bounce&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297504-990bdeb6ec98d03e9ddbe837e079e30a.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135392&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;Juno &amp;quot;Estellise&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297505-2256066ec48e760d6be186e471d4dace.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135393&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;VaMDeV &amp;quot;Angela&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297506-1526e714b998d6b48f1bb127f5c1f8b3.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135394&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;VaMDeV &amp;quot;FAAK2&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    
            vids.push({
                url: "https://1387905758.rsc.cdn77.org/data/video/297/297507-7bef98f379634cc4738a222b13220fac.mp4",
                credits: "&lt;a href=&quot;https://hub.virtamate.com/threads/official-hub-videos-thread.45644/post-135395&quot; class=&quot;link link--internal&quot;&gt;VaMDeV &amp;quot;Giganta&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"
            });
    

        var i = 0;

        function shuffle(vids, lastVideo) {
            let currentIndex = vids.length,
                randomIndex;
            while (currentIndex != 0) {
                randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * currentIndex);
                currentIndex--;
                [vids[currentIndex], vids[randomIndex]] = [vids[randomIndex], vids[currentIndex]];
            }

            if (lastVideo && lastVideo === vids[0]) {
                [vids[0], vids[1]] = [vids[1], vids[0]];
            }

            playvids();
        }

        function playvids() {
            if (vids.length === 0) {
                return;
            }

            if (i >= vids.length) {
                const lastVideo = vids[i - 1];
                i = 0;
                shuffle(vids, lastVideo);
            } else {
                var decodeEntities = (function() {
                    var element = document.createElement('div');

                    function decodeHTMLEntities (str) {
                        if(str && typeof str === 'string') {
                            str = str.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\S\s]*?)<\/script>/gmi, '');
                            str = str.replace(/<\/?\w(?:[^"'>]|"[^"]*"|'[^']*')*>/gmi, '');
                            element.innerHTML = str;
                            str = element.textContent;
                            element.textContent = '';
                        }

                        return str;
                    }

                    return decodeHTMLEntities;
                })();

                var nextFile = vids[i].url;
                var nextCredits = decodeEntities(vids[i].credits);

                $('#aahubvid').bind('ended', function () {
                    $('#aahubvid').unbind('ended');
                    playvids();
                });

                document.getElementById("aahubvid").src = "" + nextFile + "";
                var creditspar = document.getElementById("bannercredits");
                creditspar.innerHTML = nextCredits;
                i++;
            }
        }

        window.addEventListener("load", (event) => {
            shuffle(vids);
        });
    });
</script>





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The hub should not be downloading corrupt VARs like this to users packages folder.

All these 35KB VARs that were downloaded today are the same error page

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The way I found all mine was to run this in Powershell (very slow but it works) - gives a list of all VARs which have "<!DOCTYPE html>" in them.

PS G:\VAM 1.20\AddonPackages> Get-ChildItem -Recurse | Select-String "<!DOCTYPE html>" -List


I had 36 corrupt HTML/VARs in the folder!
 

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That's the message you get when the actual file is "404" not found. There is no such user "Killer2u" on the hub. Banned, perhaps? How were you downloading the files, from the web, or in-game? They may be able to fix it if it's a web problem, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix to the in-game downloader. It should be showing that as Not found on hub in-game, though.
 
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That's the message you get when the actual file is "404" not found. There is no such user "Killer2u" on the hub. Banned, perhaps? How were you downloading the files, from the web, or in-game? They may be able to fix it if it's a web problem, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a fix to the in-game downloader. It should be showing that as Not found on hub in-game, though.
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The files ARE all there on the hub... I was able to painstakingly download all of them just now manually using the HTML link to the file inside each bad HTML.

I said exactly how I was downloading them in my post above (in Package Manager "Scan Hub for Missing Packages").

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It should be showing the buttons on downloader as red FAILED instead of DONE and downloading the error page and saving it as the RAR filename.
 
It's possible the Package Manager in-game is not as smart as the Hub Browse functionality. I've never had that problem with Hub Browse. Paging @AshAuryn to the scene of the mishap...
 
geo_gan said:
The files ARE all there on the hub... I was able to painstakingly download all of them just now manually using the HTML link to the file inside each bad HTML.

I said exactly how I was downloading them in my post above (in Package Manager "Scan Hub for Missing Packages").

View attachment 327419

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It should be showing the buttons on downloader as red FAILED instead of DONE and downloading the error page and saving it as the RAR filename.
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Can you let us know what resource you were trying to "scan hub for missing packages" for?

That may help. I was just successfully able to download those vars through the in-game hub browser. Could you send me a DM with a link to the actual var you are using to "scan hub for missing packages"?
 
I've been seeing these error messages for a while as well, and looking through some of the results the Powershell search is currently getting, it's looking like the ingame file manager is the problem, possibly because of some completely random connection issues or the hub being down. I was sceptical about the manager trying to update a file without being able to connect to the hub, since I figured it wouldn't know to look for a newer one without a connection, until I ran into an interesting case:
I have two versions of one var file, one named "Damarmau.Female_Orc.1.var", which is the only version as far as I can tell. But I also have a SECOND file, name "Damarmau.Female_Orc.latest.var", which as far as I understand shouldn't even be possible for the actual downloaded var file.
Checking through the list of files depending on this resource I have "Damarmau.Barbie_colored_skins.1.var", which links to the "latest.var" of the orc file.

So, my best guess is that these are caused by the hub database being down, or someone losing internet connectivity, and the ingame manager looking for a file via the meta.json file, but getting a 404 response and the ingame manager doesn't have a contingency for this specific situation.

Addition: I ran into another invalid file, which I know I downloaded with proper connection just the other day. In this case I think it was because I had Steam helpfully devour my last SSD space for a 70 GB update file, so it ended up sneaking past the check for HTML code. In this case it probably just downloaded whatever it could before running out of space and got interrupted.
I'm not sure if hash verification would be a workable idea aside from first download since we can repack var files with altered contents, but at least a check that the file can be opened could save some head scratching.
 
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