[Opensim-dev] TP protocol handle

Mic Bowman cmickeyb at gmail.com
Sat Jan 31 19:34:00 UTC 2009


Is there any way to report on the grid coordinates for the linked
region so you can tell whether the link is within the acceptable 4096
range? something like gridinfo...

--mic


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Cristina Videira Lopes
<lopes at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> 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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