[Opensim-dev] Authentication, take 2: Capabilities

[Dr Scofield]

Diva Canto wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Seriously, the right way of writing the viewer would be for it to accept
> capabilities for all of its functions, and default to UDP to the region
> if no CAP URL is set. Those 400+ messages of the Client-Server protocol
> should simply be handles for capability-like functions that would be
> implemented by assorted components, to be defined at login-time by the
> trusted home system. But there I go again bashing the viewer, right
> after my new-found love for it...

<grin>we should now pound on linden's door and demand MORE CAPs...</grin>

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