[Opensim-users] SoaS offline question & shiny helm

[Mimetic Core]

That's a strange one.  I'm by no means familiar with that aspect of the  
viewer code, but my best guess would be that since Imp is a hybrid viewer  
it needs to stop and send out that precious ping before it moves on to the  
final connection phase - regardless of which grid you're headed for - to  
maintain Linden's seal of approval.  If a particular viewer was geared  
ONLY for OpenSim grids it probably wouldn't need this extra procedure.   
I'm sure someone here can give you a definite answer.

-core

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:04:01 -0500, Cider Jack <ciderjack.vw at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> IThe question I've seen asked on on this list before, but searching
> through archives I'm not finding it. It regards SoaS, and how to use
> it on a computer that isn't online. It seems to need an active network
> connection to be able to log in. So what do I need to change to be
> able to use SoaS when not connected to the network? It was a really
> simple fix, if I recall.
>
> Something related to share that the tin-foil-hatters among us may find
> curious (if it's not already common knowledge and I'm just living
> under a rock). I recently installed PeerBlock (formerly PeerGuardian)
> to supplement my firewall. When connecting to OpenSim grids (including
> SoaS), it seems Imprudence sends an outbound HTTP connection to Linden
> Lab and won't allow login to any grid as long as that connection is
> blocked. I haven't tried this with any other TPVs. It's difficult to
> imagine any reason for LL to be notified anytime someone logs onto an
> OS grid with a TPV. Probably just totally benign left-over code from
> the original SL viewer that nobody's gotten around to removing, would
> be my guess. Anyway, that's actually what sparked the fruitless
> archive dig and the subsequent question above!
>
> Cheers,
> ~!CJ
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