[Opensim-dev] external host name

[Charles Krinke]

Dear Diva:

You have a very good point and I would support harmonizing to one notion even at the expense of breaking some things for a while.

In fact, if someone can identify what some of those things are, or come up with a couple of search strings or grep expressions, I would like to look at the anomalies myself.

+1 on external_host_name

Charles



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From: Cristina Videira Lopes <lopes at ics.uci.edu>
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:42:05 PM
Subject: [Opensim-dev] external host name

It turns out that a lot of problems with CAPs have to do with 
inconsistencies surrounding the URL of the seed cap. Specifically, in 
some cases we're producing URLs with hostnames, other times we're 
producing URLs with IP addresses, for example:

http://ucigrid03.nacs.uci.edu:9000/CAPS/4cfc94fa-09be-409b-b136-cda2cdde0000/
vs.
http://128.200.71.43:9000/CAPS/4cfc94fa-09be-409b-b136-cda2cdde0000/

The client is not smart enough to test if this is the same host, it 
assumes it isn't, so it decides someone's trying to game it.

The inconsistencies are all over the code in OpenSim, and they pertain 
to the use of ExternalHostName in several data structures. In some 
cases, an explicit conversion to IP addresses is made.

We should converge to one single thing. And I believe that thing should 
be whatever it is given in external_host_name config. Is this right? 
However, I am a bit afraid this is going to break 17 different things...

Crista

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