[Opensim-dev] A Online HyperGrid Link list for OpenSim's 2nd birthday

[Dahlia Trimble]

It might also be interesting if there could be some sort of p2p transfer of
hypergrid links, where a web site might send a list of seed regions, and as
a link were made of each of those regions, another exchange could occur
where each party exchanges a list of public regions. That way a larger grid
could configure itself and individual regions could join in without
requiring an update to a central web site.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:11 AM, MW <michaelwri22 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I've just added some very initial support for reading Hypergrid link data
> from xml files, that includes support for the xml files being on a
> webserver.
>
> The xml file has a format like:
>
> <Nini>
>  <Section Name="Region1">
>    <Key Name="xloc" Value="1002"/>
>    <Key Name="yloc" Value="1006" />
>    <Key Name="externalPort" Value="9006" />
>    <Key Name="externalHostName" Value="osl2.nac.uci.edu" />
>    <Key Name="localName" Value="OSGrid-Gateway" />
>  </Section>
>  <Section Name="Region2">
>    ...
>  </Section>
>  ...
> </Nini>
>
>
> And to make a region load it and create the links, you use the console
> command:  link-region <URI> [<excludeList>]
>
> The excludeList parameter is so that certain links in those xml files are
> ignored.
>
> With the format: excludeList<xml SectionName>[;<xml SectionName>].
>
> The main thinking for this is so that a single list for a certain
> group/event could be created. Then everyone interested in it, just adds
> their own region data to the list.
>
> But so they can also point their own region at that list, they just add the
> section name they used to the exclude list, so that it doesn't try to link
> to itself.
>
> If we can find a way of having a xml file on a webserver that people can
> add new entries to (maybe through a form script). Then I think it would be a
> good idea to have such a list for OpenSim's 2nd birthday.
>
> Although this idea really needs some sort of automapping or at least better
> configuration of the map locations that the regions are placed at.
>
> I think if everyone just agrees that a certain area on the map [so say x,y
> - x+25, y+25] is reserved for link regions, that it is workable for now.
>
>
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