Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26032509-20170720031847/@comment-72.22.163.41-20170726211029

Alright, did some digging, and it definitely looks like cookie workarounds aren't going to work any more - I tried getting a good session (by tunneling through a Tokyo-based server I rented for an hour - gotta love the cloud), changing the connection within the browser to not use the tunnel, and refreshing - it's a hard server-side redirect, even with the same set of cookies, which suggests they're checking at an IP level.

However, it does seem like a proxy is sufficient, and you only have to proxy the initial connection - which is why saving the page works. I'd suggest installing an addon that lets you switch between multiple proxies - FoxyProxy (Firefox and Chrome) is a good one - and grab a Japanese proxy address from one of the many lists of proxies floating around the internet and configure it in FoxyProxy (I'm using 52.198.75.249 port 80 right now. It looks like it's sufficient to just pass http://pc-play.games.dmm.com/* and http://osapi.dmm.com/* through the proxy - in FoxyProxy, you can create url patterns that let you include or exclude stuff from going through the proxy. This gets rid of some of the load time issues - the big flash files are on a different server that doesn't need proxying - and the security issues, as all the requests to those two domains are loaded insecurely anyway - the login domain for DMM isn't part of that.

I'll see if there's any way to export FoxyProxy settings, and if so, if I can put up a config file for other people to use somewhere.