ajthemacboy

Have you solved the problem yet? I am investigating the server you sent at the moment if you still need help.

Hi guys. As you probably all know, technic only lets you have 3 modpacks in the system at one time. I have a way around this that I'd like to propose.
 
First, some information. When a modpack is created, a page with plain text is generated, like this one.
http://www.technicpack.net/api/modpack/this-is-a-modpack-template
This is the URL you paste into the launcher to download the modpack.
 
On that page, every forward slash has a backslash before it. For example, https://www... would become https://, and dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jc... would become dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jc...
 
Now, here's my idea:
 
Through pastebin, create a paste with this text:
 
{"name":"","displayName":"","user":"","version":"","","minecraft":"","logo":{"url":"","md5":""},"background":{"url":"","md5":""},"solder":"","forceDir":false}
 
Then, fill in the information for your pack so it looks like this: 
 
{"name":"this-is-a-modpack-template","displayName":"This is a modpack template","user":"thejoka","version":"1.0","url":"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jczyn49i4yj6m9n/Minecraft%20Mod%20Creation.zip?dl=1&token_hash=AAFRBcF40sJqyVYcYmza3_DEfwDh8cZse1B8lIdtvIevxg","minecraft":"1.7.2","logo":{"url":"","md5":""},"background":{"url":"","md5":""},"solder":"","forceDir":false}
 
Then, before every forward slash, insert a backslash, so it looks like this: 
 
{"name":"this-is-a-modpack-template","displayName":"This is a modpack template","user":"thejoka","version":"1.0","url":"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/jczyn49i4yj6m9n/Minecraft%20Mod%20Creation.zip?dl=1&token_hash=AAFRBcF40sJqyVYcYmza3_DEfwDh8cZse1B8lIdtvIevxg","minecraft":"1.7.2","logo":{"url":"","md5":""},"background":{"url":"","md5":""},"solder":"","forceDir":false}
 
Then save. Under the paste's name, there is a link that says 'RAW'. This takes you to a text only page.
 
Now, here are the problems. 
 
The launcher apparently only accepts input from technicpack.net urls, so the launcher will just say 'Invalid url' when you paste it in.
 
Both pages are completely identical except that the technicpack.net/api... link is 'https' instead of 'http' of pastebin. This can be solved by replacing http with https when giving people the url to the pack, because https automatically redirects to http.
 
Thus, theoretically, pasting this link into the launcher would work.
https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Sydenzuu
 
The only reason I can think of that there are only 3 modpacks allowed is that they don't want millions of modpacks on their system. This would allow unlimited modpacks through pastebin that would cause no additional strain to the website, since everything is done through the launcher and pastebin. Thus, if technic could just allow the launcher to use pastebin links, we could all have unlimited modpacks.
 
tl;dr: We can have unlimited modpacks through pastebin.com by using the raw paste feature and formatting our pastes to technic standards.