[Opensim-dev] Wormhole in OpenSIM?

[Diva Canto]

If that's all, then ... ok. I thought I heard wishes of a technical 
nature, and that, perhaps, he doesn't understand how link-region works, 
and what it does. Perhaps he only knows HG TPs through the map or 
something. (all hg link UIs end up placing hyperlinks on the maps, but 
all except link-region end up placing them very far away from the main 
cluster of regions)

On 10/25/2010 9:42 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
> Diva,
>
> He doesn't (necessarily) want to link to them - he wants them to link 
> to him. So that in that foreign grid, the link to his grid acts in 
> that grid, like a hyperlink to your webpage does on someone else's page.
>
> It seems to me that all he needs to do is contact the foreign grid 
> operator and see if they'd be willing to link to a sim in his grid.
>
> -ste
>
> On 10/25/10 12:38 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>> That's how the HG works. HG 1.5 is on a grid-basis. The entrance to
>> grids is directed at the Gatekeeper service.
>> When you link to, for exmple, hg.osgrid.org:80 you are requesting the
>> Gatekeeper of osgrid to link to whatever the default region entry is in
>> OSGrid, consequently being able to visit all regions in OSGrid that
>> allow foreign visitors. When you link to hg.osgrid.org:80:Some Region
>> you are requesting th Gatekeeper to link to a specific region on that
>> grid, permissions allowing.
>>
>> Maybe I'm still missing something.
>>
>> On 10/25/2010 9:19 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>>> It sounds like what he wants is for foreign grids to link to a region
>>> in his grid, so that users from that grid can get to his, without him
>>> having to maintain a region in the other grid.
>>>
>>> -ste
>>>
>>> On 10/25/10 12:16 PM, Jor3l Boa wrote:
>>>> Yes diva, but his idea is when you tp to that region actually switch
>>>> grids (tp-to-grid instead of tp-to-sim), actually makes sense if you
>>>> want people visit a bunch of regions with one entrance
>>>>
>>>> 2010/10/25 Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com
>>>> <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but what you're describing is how the
>>>> Hypergrid works, redirect and all. It's not an http redirect,
>>>> because the viewer doesn't do that protocol, but it's
>>>> TeleportFinish, which is the Linden equivalent of an http redirect.
>>>>
>>>> If you use the link-region console command you place a region on
>>>> your map (you see it on your map) that belongs to another grid.
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