[Opensim-dev] Serving textures in different formats

[Mike Chase]

On 12/08/2010 10:36 AM, Diva Canto wrote:
> So far, all textures in OpenSim are stored and served as jp2. However, 
> some viewers can't use jp2. Example: Unity3d, for the time being. I 
> would like to improve the GetTexture cap service by adding the ability 
> for it to make conversions on the fly depending on extra data provided 
> by the caller.
>
Personally I prefer neither.  Doing format conversions on the client 
(rather than the server where the overhead affects all the users) seems 
more appropriate to me.  IMO standardizing on a single format from the 
server and then letting the client do a format conversion where thats 
necessary is the better solution.  Alternatively you could push the 
conversion off to a separate service. But again, that implies the core 
code doesn't need to address it.

Just my 2 cents.

Mike

> There are two ways of doing this. Which one do people prefer?
>
> A) Add an extra query parameter: 
> http://foo.com/GetTexture/?texture_id=<uuid>&format=<format>
>
> B) Use the Accept and Content-Type headers appropriately.
> The request might have
> Accept: image/png, image/jp2
> And the response might have
> Content-Type: image/png
>
> Diva / Crista
>
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