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This request is largely in jest, but I will request it anyway.

I would like to send simple HTTP requests for the purpose of creating ingame leaderboards, ideally signed by the user and including a hash of the modlist and mod file contents.

Mods are specifically sandboxed to the in game API and being able to write to the script output folder. They will never be allowed to make HTTP requests - it would break the entire sandbox.

To give more context: this would enable spyware to be installed inside factorio.

With the file output you at least need external software to be running on your PC, and that effectively kills this possibility.