[Opensim-users] Interesting thought I have had

[Justin Clark-Casey]

LaeMi Wang wrote:
> I am not sure if/when this will work, but if it does, others 
> might also find the idea useful...
>
> In about 4 months when my present residential ADSL2 plan ends, I 
> am looking at getting a small-business plan which inclides a 
> static IP and permission to host servers. It also includes 20MB 
> of static web space on my ISP's server.
>
> I am hoping that at that time I can put all my textures on this 
> upstream web space where they can be accessed quickly and 
> without loading up my last-mile line using url-referenced 
> textures, leaving the relatively lower-traffic parts of my sim 
> to run off my actual home box.
>
> Any opinions on whether this sounds sensible/useful? ;-)
>   
I'm going to assume you're talking about running a standalone OpenSim.

In principle something like this might be possible.  It depends on how 
the client handles the RequestTextureDownload capability (we don't 
currently use this method in OpenSim).  If this can just give the client 
an url to directly download a jp2 texture from, then in principle the 
region server could point it at any webspace url, as long as one doesn't 
mind exposing that url to the world.

However, I really am speaking off the top of my head here - I've no idea 
how viable this approach would be.  It does depend on the details of how 
the RequestTextureDownload capability works.

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Justin Clark-Casey