[Opensim-dev] Any way for the server to get the viewer to send some information to another process on the client PC?

[Melanie]

You can send the "Go to website" dialog from a money module as well.
Both the VirWox module and DTL currency do this.

On 11/11/2011 11:55, Edmund Edgar wrote:
> On 11 November 2011 18:31, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
>> The easiest way would be to make your bitcoin client open port 80 on
>> your local host (or another port) for localhost use only. Then a
>> script could send you to
>> 127.0.0.1:xxxx/pay?to=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx or
>> similar and you complete the transaction onn this locally served
>> html page.
> 
> Actually I wasn't really thinking there would be an LSL script
> involved at all - I was hoping for some kind of way for the money
> module to send a message.
> 
> For example, Fumi Iseki's version of the money module code
> http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/svn/opensim/opensim.currency/trunk/OpenSim.Forge.Currency/MoneyModule.cs
> ...has things like:
>  remoteClient.SendAgentAlertMessage("Unable to buy now. You don't have
> sufficient funds", false);
> ...which presumably sends a message to the client, which the client
> displays to the user.
> 
> In my dreams, I could do something like:
>  remoteClient.SendArbitraryHTTPMessageToSomethingListeningOnLocalPort("9876","1234
> BTC,1Q4uC95NvGSw3JrmFAcc4ZDRDNGZ2u3bFT");
> ...or maybe:
>  remoteClient.WriteToLogWeMadeUpJustForThisPurpose("bitcoin_transaction_request.log","1234
> BTC,1Q4uC95NvGSw3JrmFAcc4ZDRDNGZ2u3bFT");
> 
> But maybe I could somehow create an LSL script and make the client run it...
> 
> The GridProxy thing is an interesting thought - it occurs to me that
> I'd also need to pass BitCoin addresses from the BitCoin client to the
> server, and associate them with the logged-in avatar, and it could
> help with things in that direction too.
>