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^ OP of the above reddit post here. I'll make a separate thread (edit: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=178441.0), but I suppose this is a good enough spot to address some questions.

I don't know that I've "solved" any of the problems with DFPlex in a way that helps anyone that isn't willing to set up multiple levels of infrastructure in front of their DFPlex server . For example, I added password protection by shimming all connections through a websocket edge service that performs validation of a single-use authorization token in order to gate access to the DFPlex server, which is itself running in a VPC that is not accessible to the public internet. This also solves the problem of exposing the underlying filesystem -- I've disabled the http server on the DFPlex instances and just use a single static webserver for https://play.multidorf.com/demo. Definitely want to contribute my UI changes to https://github.com/Ankoku/df-webfort upstream (the ones that allow changing the tileset/textset via a dropdown instead of url params) although those are obviously quite basic.

I use the default Websocketpp normally.
In dfplex_server.log I also have

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A new client has joined.
  Client addr: "???"
  Client is admin.

I used firefox and it worked for localhost, I also used google chrome which worked for none of them, and I used edge which worked for ocalhost
But over the internet it doesn't work, even though like I said I forwarded the ports, the page loads but it says "connecting" then just says retry.

After further investigation, it seems the windows build never "attaches" to the port 1234, even if you change that port to any other port, it never attaches to that specific port, by attach I mean it never "Listens" to that port.

I do successfully connect to the linked web server after ~30 seconds too, with orange bar the whole time. On my windows machine, though, it goes from orange bar straight to red bar with "click to retry" instantaneously. Leaving it in that state for any amount of time does not seem to help.

Alright, guess it's back to trying to compile. I was having such troubles, though... ugh. And what parameters do I have to set in the build files to do this?

Edit: New issue, now my browser isn't connecting, and the game isn't having any issues playing in the main window. dfhack is reporting that I'm trying to connect, but the browser only says "Connection Error - Click to retry", with an empty FPS box in the corner, and "- players" in another corner.

Edit2: dfplex_server.log has something interesting to say.

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A new client has joined.
  Client addr: "???"
  Client is admin.Further, stdout.log has no text whatsoever, while in the older version (which I installed with the batch file), the file had the lines

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[2020-05-18 19:28:01] [DFPLEX] Dwarfplex websocket serving on 1234
[2020-05-18 19:28:01] [DFPLEX] (Do not connect to this in your browser.)
which I assume means something. So since that's not happening in this version... what did I break?

Then I open a Chrome window and connect to the local host.  It works, and I get whatever tileset I added to the init file.  But it doesn't show any menus.  In the main game, (Win64) pressing tab will cycle through showing menus, a mini-map, or a mini-map and a menu.  The tab key on Chrome doesn't register at all for my connection.

Well, on the off chance Putnam ever (EVER) decides to return to the fortbent project (which is a huge ask, and a big if), and these two projects ever happen to be compatible with the same DF projects, I will try to combine them. Knowing that they will likely fail, as hivebent has a massive amount of dfhack scripting afaik.

Thanks for the detailed write-up. So if I understand well, things like set-and-forget tweaks would work, but advanced UI modifications like manipulator would fail?

Also, would it be possible to render different tilesets depending on the client?