[Opensim-dev] How does the viewer know the user's maturity rating

[drwhiet at spacefriends.de]

I have informed about this "error" the different viewer Developers as this is Not a Singularity only problem and also  documented this on different Forum Sites where i mentioned this issue.

On 04.02.2013, at 08:42, Oren Hurvitz <orenh at kitely.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It looks like OpenSim doesn't tell the viewer which maturity ratings a user
> is allowed to use. I'm using the latest Firestorm, and in the Avatar
> Preferences dialog I try to change the value of the listbox "I want to
> access content rated" from General to Moderate or Adult, but Firestorm says
> that I'm not allowed. So the viewer thinks my user is only allowed to access
> General content.
> 
> I searched, but I couldn't find how the viewer is told the user's maturity
> rating. Does anyone know? Is it a UDP packet that we haven't implemented
> yet, or an HTTP request to Second Life? If the latter then we'll need to ask
> Armin Weatherwax to allow that request to be redirected to an arbitrary URL
> so that we can handle it in OpenSim.
> 
> The problem with having the user stuck on General maturity level is that
> sounds that originate in a region with Moderate or Adult maturity rating
> aren't played. (They did play in Imprudence, but they don't play in new
> viewers.)
> 
> Oren
> 
> 
> 
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