i have the same problem, not being able to update mods automatically, with the following additional info:
- when i use a stand alone installation of factorio, everything works fine.
- when i try to update mods in my steam installation, i get this "api/mods 414" error.
- i don't knowingly (on purpose) use a proxy
since i played only vanilla factorio on the steam installation, and a modded game on the standalone, it wasn't important to me yet, but the problem probably already exists since 0.17.0
some details about these two installations:
- the steam version updates to the newest experimental version fine, and i just verified the steam installation with the result that everything is ok.
- both installations are not in the usual locations, but in subdirectories on drive D:
- the standalone is in the directory D:\myGames\Factorio\Factorio_0.17.auto and has many subdirectories (bin, mods, saves, ...) and a config-path.cfg with the two important lines
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config-path=__PATH__executable__/../../config
use-system-read-write-data-directories=false
- the steam version is in D:\myGames\STEAM\steamapps\common\Factorio and has only 4 subdirectories (bin, data, doc-html, steam_shader_cache) and a config-path.cfg with the two important lines
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config-path=__PATH__system-write-data__/config
use-system-read-write-data-directories=true
and thus is probably using C:\Users\<myname>\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods as its mod directory