[Opensim-dev] Client signature processing in the OpenSim User Server

[Sacha Magne]

+1
Fist thing i will blacklist is SecondInventory until thsy fixe this soft !

Sacha

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:36 PM, James Stallings II <
james.stallings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings All :D
> I have a need to do some processing of what I will call the 'client
> signature', or that bit of data that the client sends to identify itself at
> login (Version, Channel, and Platform).
>
> Presently, the only thing done with this information is that it is logged
> on the User Server log.
>
> I am a beginning C# programmer as I am sure many of you know, though no
> stranger to programming in general; I am also more than passingly familiar
> with the OpenSim source code. That said however, I have to this point only
> stretched my C# wings in region modules, and as this is a fairly central
> piece of OpenSim, felt it incumbent upon me to broach this topic here before
> starting to work on what might be a patch that many are interested in, thus
> giving the community an opportunity to provide guidance and input to the
> effort.
>
> Basically, what I'd like to do is provide some functionality to support a
> 'black box' of client processing; facilitating optional and arbitrary login
> processing in addition to authentication.This will provide opportunities for
> grid operators to more proactively manage connections to their grids based
> on the strings sent by the client, including such applications as
> cryptographic client signing, filtering of undesirable clients, detailed
> logging for business purposes, etc.
>
> My first intuition is to produce a patch to the user server proper, but if
> it would be more appropriate to do so, if a server plug-in or add-in is
> possible, that is likely the way to go.
>
> I eagerly look forward to your suggestions and criticisms.
>
> Cheers!
> James/Hiro/daTwitch
>
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