[Opensim-dev] Grid user server with PHP?

Justin Clark-Casey jjustincc at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 11 17:16:54 UTC 2008


Impalah wrote:
> Forgive is my question is stupid... I'm trying to understand the way 
> Opensim is "programmed" following the code and with the documentation...
> 
> Well, if all the GRID servers launch a httpserver and create their 
> xml-rpc... like these in the user server...
> 
> m_httpServer.AddXmlRPCHandler("get_user_by_name", 
> m_userManager.XmlRPCGetUserMethodName);
>             m_httpServer.AddXmlRPCHandler("get_user_by_uuid", 
> m_userManager.XmlRPCGetUserMethodUUID);
>             m_httpServer.AddXmlRPCHandler("get_avatar_picker_avatar", 
> m_userManager.XmlRPCGetAvatarPickerAvatar);
> 
> Should be possible to create a PHP service to emulate the user server, 
> isn't it? A http server is based on open-request-response-close...

Yes.  lulurun did this using Perl in Apache

http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/openugai/

> 
> And then... where is the authentication? Where is the control of "give 
> me your session id, man"?

There have been attempts at authentication (see secure inventory services, both in the code and in historical posts on 
this list by Lulurun) but for various reasons nothing has stuck yet.

> 
> I haven't developed any http standalone server in .Net... so maybe is a 
> dummie question...
>  
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> 
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