[Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

[Cristina Videira Lopes]

Forgot to say this.
If you want to experience this right now without installing, you can try 
it in UCI's regions in OSGrid, "UCI Welcome" and "UC Irvine".


Kyle wrote:
> Amazing! Cannot wait to try it soon....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Cristina Videira
> Lopes
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:49 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle
>
> Thanks all for the pointers. I now understand a lot better what these 
> handles are all about, and I've done the first step into pervasive 
> hyperlinking within OpenSim.
>
> Starting in r8193, if you're in an HG-enabled region, you'll be able to 
> dynamically link sims, and TP there, in any one of these ways (and 
> probably more)
>
> 1) Type for example secondlife://ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9007/ in the 
> chat box, pull up the chat history and click on that link
>
> 2) Pull up the map and search for things like ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9007
>
> 3) Using the embedded browser visit pages that have links like 
> secondlife://ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9007/ (there's one up at 
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~lopes/hypergrid/test.html)
>
> What I've done is to take advantage of the viewer's existing machinery, 
> especially its interpretation of secondlife:// handles, which expect a 
> region name to follow. When that name is not found in the local grid, 
> this new code kicks in, and does the magic.
>
> This doesn't address the launching of the viewer, which is a separate 
> issue, and one that slurl and similar mechanisms like rezzme:// try to 
> address. What it does is, after you're already logged in soomewhere, you 
> can go hypergriding around in a very easy way, all within the viewer's 
> capabilities.
>
> The static link-region command and uploads over the web, is still very 
> useful because it supports permanent links. The ones I added are not 
> (intended to be) permanent, they (will) come and go.
>
> Feedback welcome!
>
> Crista
>
> Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to take HG TPs to the next logical step and support dynamic 
>> links, that is, the ability for the user to simply click on something 
>> like this
>>
>> http://ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9003/
>>
>> and be teleported there from anywhere on the Metaverse.
>>
>> The question is: what should these handles look like?
>>
>> I see a variety of protocol handles out there, and I confess I don't 
>> understand entirely how the viewer handles these -- but I'll figure it 
>> out. In any case, I see:
>>
>> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Foo/126/32/
>> secondlife://Foo/126/32/  (this doesn't come underlined on my viewer, 
>> for some reason)
>> rezzme://ucigrid04.nacs.uci.edu:9003/Foo/126/32 (this also doesn't come 
>> underlined)
>>
>> Obviously, the closest to what we need is the rezzme handler. Is that 
>> working already? Should I take that on for the hypergrid? Or something 
>> else? Does anyone know if/how the viewer sends that hyperlink clicking 
>> event to the server?
>>
>> Crista
>>
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