[Opensim-dev] Authentication, take 2: Capabilities

[Melanie]

Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>> Another critical example: inventory. The CAP URL for this should be 
>> pointing directly to the Inventory server, not to the regions. I 
>> understand that inventory over CAPs had some issues in the past. I just 
>> fiddled with it this morning, and it's working -- I'm sure there are 
>> problems that I'm not seeing here on my standalone, but the basics seem 
>> to be there. That is, I gave it this:
>> 
>>                 m_capsHandlers["FetchInventoryDescendents"] =
>>                     new RestStreamHandler("POST", capsBase + 
>> m_fetchInventoryPath, FetchInventoryRequest2);
>> 
>> and the viewer compliantly posted to this URL when I accessed my 
>> inventory, instead of using UDP. So there's something here waiting to be 
>> used.
> 
> Interesting.  I can't remember if the last time this was switched on the whole thing wasn't working or whether just some 
> particular aspect of it was broken.  I suspect it was the latter.
> 

Linden turned it off because it's broken in the client. So, we can 
try to use it but will hit the same wall, since the client was never 
fixed.

Melanie