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function PsychtoolboxRegistration(isUpdate, flavor)
% PsychtoolboxRegistration(isUpdate, flavor) - Online registration.
%
% This function is used to register your working copy of Psychtoolbox
% with the official www.psychtoolbox.org website. The routine is
% normally called by PsychtoolboxPostInstallRoutine at the end of
% each successfull update or initial download of a copy of Psychtoolbox.
%
% The routine is fail-safe in the sense that it will not prevent you
% from running PTB if online registration fails for some reason.
%
% The routine transmits a bit of information about your copy of PTB and
% your system environment to the website, together with a world-wide unique
% identifier of your computer+operating system. The unique identifier is
% the MAC address of your computers primary network adapter. We need this
% to disambiguate multiple downloads/updates from the same user so we
% do not count the same system setup multiple times in our statistics.
% We have no way to easily find out who you are based on this information and
% could not care less about that information.
%
% We collect this information exclusively for the following purpose:
%
% 1. Statistics about total number of downloads for the purpose of
%    documenting the use of PTB.
%
% 2. Statistics about distribution of user base wrt. operating system,
%    and Matlab / Octave version to prioritize development for the most
%    common platform+OS combinations.
%

%
% Technical Notes:
% The minimal network server for collecting the transmitted information would be the
% following line of code, executed in the Linux/OS-X command window:
%
% Linux: while true; do nc -l -p 2000 | head -c 500 >> /tmp/testlog ; done
% MacOS-X: while true; do nc -l -p 2000 >> /tmp/testlog ; done
%
% A server script that does this can be found in managementtools/psychregistrationserver.sh
%
% This will receive data from network port 2000 (any number between 1025 and 65535
% is valid), discard everything except the first 500 bytes (to prevent overflows due
% to bugs or hacker attacks) and append it to the logfile /tmp/testlog, one
% line per registered copy of Psychtoolbox.
%
% This M-File makes use of two GPL'ed free software utilities for
% M$-Windows, "nc" and "macid". Credits for the utilities and their source
% code can be found in the PsychContributed subfolder of Psychtoolbox.
%
% History:
% 18.08.2006 Written (MK)
% 5.10.2006  Add queries for Matlabs computer string and for machine
%            architecture.
% 31.3.2008  Allow spaces in path to netcat command on Windows (Fix contributed by Tobias Wolf)
% 13.2.2009  Remove need for netcat on Matlab runtimes, esp. Windows, so we
%            can get rid of our own nc.exe netcat distribution which made
%            trouble for users with misconfigured virus scanners. (MK).
% 08.1.2012  Add extra robust MACID parsing for Linux, so we actually get registrations. (MK)
%            Latest distros, e.g., FedoraCore or Ubuntu 11.10 use unusual NIC names, which
%            makes Screen()'s parsing of MACID fail and thereby our online registration
%            reject the registration.
%
% 28.5.2012  Cleanup for 3.0.10+ series. (MK)
%

% Address and port number of our statistics server:
ptbserveraddress = 'psychtoolbox.org';

% Running under OpenGL-PTB? Otherwise we abort.
AssertOpenGL;

try
    
    % All arguments supplied? Otherwise we skip registration.
    if nargin < 2
        fprintf('PsychtoolboxRegistration: WARNING - Call arguments missing. Skipped...\n');
        return;
    end
    
    if IsOctave
        % No registration for GNU/Octave versions older than 3:
        if sscanf(version, '%i') < 3
            % Pre Octave-3: Just return -- Noop:
            fprintf('PsychtoolboxRegistration: Octave version < 3 detected. Skipping registration...\n');
            return;
        end
    end
    
    compinfo = Screen('Computer');
    
    % Query OS-Type:
    if IsOSX
        ostype = 'MacOS-X';
        osversion = deblank(compinfo.system);
        arch = deblank(compinfo.hw.machine);
    end
    
    if IsWin
        ostype = 'Windows';
        osversion = deblank(compinfo.system);
            
        if isempty(osversion)
            osversion = 'Unknown';
        end
        
        % Define machine architecture to be Intel.
        arch = 'Intel';
    end
    
    if IsLinux
        ostype = 'LinuxOS';
        osversion = deblank(compinfo.system);
        arch = deblank(compinfo.hw.machine);
    end
    
    % Query runtime environment:
    if IsOctave
        runtimeenv = 'Octave';
        runtimeversion = version;
    else
        runtimeenv = 'Matlab';
        runtimeversion = version;
    end
    
    % Query what Matlab thinks as well:
    runtimearch = computer;
    
    % Query MAC address as unique machine id:
    % We try to get the info from the 'Computer' subfunction of Screen:
    if isfield(compinfo, 'MACAddress')
        % Success. Use it.
        mac = compinfo.MACAddress;
        
        % Valid? Some recent Linux distros assign unusual ethernet names,
        % e.g., do not call the primary NIC eth0, so our Screen() code
        % fails. In this case we fallback to the clumsy but hopefully
        % effective method here:
        if strcmp(mac, '00:00:00:00:00:00');
            % No: Try alternative way, if possible:
            if IsLinux
                [rc, res] = system('ifconfig | grep Ethernet | grep HWaddr');
                if rc == 0
                    % Find first valid HWaddr:
                    idx = strfind(res, 'HWaddr ');
                    for j = idx
                        mymacid = res(j+7:j+7+16);
                        if ~strcmp(mymacid, '00:00:00:00:00:00')
                            % This one seems to be valid. Assign as final mac,
                            % and we're done:
                            mac = upper(mymacid);
                            break;
                        end
                    end
                end
            end
        end
    else
        % Failed: Try harder...
        if IsWin
            % Use external helper-utility to try to query MAC address:
            macidcom = [PsychtoolboxRoot 'PsychContributed\macid '];
            [rc mac] = dos(macidcom);
            if rc==0 && length(mac)>=12
                % Worked on Windows: Reassemble MAC into our standard
                % format:
                mac = [mac(1) mac(2) ':' mac(3) mac(4) ':' mac(5) mac(6) ':' mac(7) mac(8) ':' mac(9) mac(10) ':' mac(11) mac(12)];
            else
                % Failed as well. Set to unknown default.
                mac = '00:00:00:00:00:00';
            end
        else
            % On Non-Windows system, we are out of luck and use our
            % 'unknown' default:
            mac = '00:00:00:00:00:00';
        end
    end
    
    % Build unique id string for this system:
    uniqueID = ['<MACID>' mac '</MACID><OS>' ostype '-' osversion '</OS><ENVIRONMENT>' runtimeenv '</ENVIRONMENT><ENVVERSION>' ...
        runtimeversion '</ENVVERSION><ENVARCH>' runtimearch '</ENVARCH><CPUARCH>' arch '</CPUARCH><FLAVOR>' ...
        flavor '</FLAVOR><ISUPDATE>' num2str(isUpdate) '</ISUPDATE><DATE>' date '</DATE>'];
    
    fprintf('Online Registration: Will try to transmit the following string of data\n');
    fprintf('to the www.psychtoolbox.org website for statistical purpose:\n\n');
    fprintf('%s\n\n', uniqueID);
    fprintf('Type ''help PsychtoolboxRegistration'' at the Matlab/Octave command prompt\n');
    fprintf('to learn about the purpose and scope of online registration.\n');
    fprintf('Type ''type PsychtoolboxRegistration'' to see the source code of this routine.\n\n');
    fprintf('Data transfer can take up to 10 seconds... The system reports:\n');
    
    % Use pnet() for communication:
    psychlasterror('reset');
    rc = 0;
    
    con=pnet('tcpconnect', ptbserveraddress, 2000);
    if con >= 0
        % Connection established.
        % Write our string, with a timeout of 10 seconds:
        pnet(con, 'setwritetimeout', 10);
        
        try
            % This try-catch is just to work around a bug in
            % pnet('printf'), pretty annoying.
            pnet(con, 'printf', '%s\n', uniqueID);
        catch
            psychlasterror('reset');
        end
    else
        % Failed!
        rc = 1;
    end
    
    pnet('closeall');
    
    % Did it work?
    if rc==0
        fprintf('Success! Thanks for online registration of this copy.\n');
    else
        fprintf('Failed! Anyway, this does not affect your use of PTB in any way,\n');
        fprintf('only our statistics about usage will be inaccurate :(\n');
    end
catch
    % This empty try-catch-end framework is just to make absolutely sure that our
    % installation procedure does not fail due to some error in the online registration
    % script.
end

% We are done.
return;