[Opensim-dev] Gainsay ultra minimalist web front end

[James Stallings II]

Greetings Metaverse :)

I am proud to announce the general availability of a new opensim web
front-end called 'Gainsay', now available at GitHub.

The design philosophy of this front-end is very straightforward, and it's
featureset is exceedingly limited. It goes something like this:

Featureset:
 - allow anonymous web-originated requests for grid access via simple web
form
 - provide a means for a grid operator to review, approve, or remove
requests supplied anonymously via the web

This highly constrained feature set allows the system to be incredibly
lightweight, as there is no need to support user login or related
operations from the web. All administrative operations occur directly on
the system in user space. Security is therefor inherited from the operating
system.

All code is in PHP; two html files with embedded PHP and three CLI PHP user
space commands.

It is very simple to set up, provided one has already installed apache,
mysql, PHP and opensim (pretty typical toolchain dependencies+application
in our community).

Documentation was the first thing written, big fat readme included in the
repo.

The package isn't perfect yet (probably some typos here and there in the
user feedback) and no doubt there are places the documentation could be
touched up (and will be in the quite near future).

It cries out for testing, and your feedback is not only appreciated but
solicited. Find it at http://github.com/JamesStallings/gainsayWFE

Thanks in advance!


Cheers
James/Hiro

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