[Opensim-dev] Is the message "Please wait 5 minutes" still needed?

[Frisby, Adam]

Make it standard.

+1

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Arthur Valadares
> Sent: Friday, 29 May 2009 2:59 PM
> To: OpenSim-Dev
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Is the message "Please wait 5 minutes" still
> needed?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wanted to consult you all about this matter, even though I have
> already committed some related code. I will gladly change it if we
> decide to do things differently.
> 
> Once upon a time, there seemed to be a necessity that you had to wait 5
> minutes if you crashed and tried to log back in. Those were the days
> before my time, tales that the elder tells us by the fireside. After
> these days, when I started messing around with OpenSim, there was a bug
> that would kick you after a few minutes if you tried to log back on
> without waiting. This was also fixed (thanks Crista!), which leads me
> to
> my question. Why are we still getting this message?
> 
> Well, the only purpose I can think of is it warns you that you either
> crashed last time or that someone is using your account. Either way,
> something went wrong and the user might want to know that.
> 
> So the code I committed puts an option in standalone that allows you to
> skip this message and just let OpenSim kick the old user and connect
> the
> new one, kind of like what happens in messengers if you logon from a
> different location. This is very useful when you have softwares that
> encapsulate the login process and doesn't want to leave the user
> looking
> at the viewer's login page with a failed message.
> 
> So, should this become standard and just skip and kick, or should we
> leave it up to configuration? Opinions please..
> 
> 
> --
> Arthur Valadares <arthursv at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
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