[Opensim-dev] hop and x-grid-location-info

[Ai Austin]

Taking this out of the discussion on new viewers...

>Cinder Roxley wrote:
>For all intents and purposes, 
><http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/2018-December/hop:///>hop:// 
>has been abandoned. While I admit,
>it's much friendlier looking than 
>x-grid-<http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/2018-December/info://,/>info://, 
>x-grid-<http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/2018-December/info:///>info:// 
>complies
>with BCP 35 and the URL Living Standard.


Good points about Cinder's 
x-grid-<http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/2018-December/info://,/>info:// 
proposal and work... what is the current status of that Cinder? I 
just did some tests and the 
x-grid-<http://opensimulator.org/pipermail/opensim-dev/2018-December/info://,/>info:// 
test links I set up do work with the latest Firestorm 5.1.7.55786 m 
in the address bar but are not linked for clicking in Chat/IM at present.

hop:// (in Firestorm at least) continues to work pretty well when 
shared in Chat/IMs and/or used in the top address bar... but not in 
the map too where http://gridname:port[/region] is required.

Just to pop some links and posts from 2013-2017 about this topic here 
in a handy form...

Cinder Roxley is developing a multi-grid teleport addressing scheme 
that works in a similar fashion to hop:// in that it can be used to 
launch or communicate with a running viewer and teleport to a 
specific grid, region and location, as well as run certain app 
features. It is being implemented initially in the 
<https://alchemyviewer.org/pages/downloads.html>Alchemy Viewer. More 
details of the protocol are available at

https://alchemy.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ALCH/pages/28737538/x-grid-info+scheme

http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/hg.html
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/hg.html#x-grid

http://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/atate/2013/06/11/grid-hopping-multi-grid-and-hypergrid-teleport-uri-protocols/