[Opensim-users] Hypergrid Things, Jumps, SLurls, Hop URLs and Maps

[Jeff Kelley]

At 8:21 PM +0100 6/3/13, Ai Austin wrote:

>Since the way of specifying HG links changed to the form http://gridname:port
>region_name rather than http://gridname:port:region_name with a : connector it
>seems that some places where this string worked have been lost.. such as in
>local chat (which automatically added a clickable link that worked as a way to
>jump about.

The syntax depends on the interface you talk with.

I keep an external travel book with links in the form:

secondlife://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002:Vue-5000/

This is parsed as an URI by text editors, web browsers, mailers, 
IRC/IM clients and make it easy to share hyperlinks outside the world.

It can be also typed in the chat bar. In this case, the trailing / is 
mandatory (i'm referring to Imprudence).

secondlife://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002:Vue-5000/ will be clickable on chat bar
secondlife://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002:Vue-5000  will not

You've got problems with spaces in region names:

secondlife://hg.osgrid.org:80:Lbsa Plaza/

Although this is clickable when typed in Imprudence's chat bar, it is 
not in a text file. This is not clickable in the mailer i'm using 
now. A common way to force the parsing is to enclose the URI in angle 
brackets:

<secondlife://hg.osgrid.org:80:Lbsa Plaza/>

The full link get passed to Imprudence, without the brackets.

This is my favorite way to store and use hyperlinks. I never type in 
the map (clicking once is faster than copy/paste). I can go to 
Vue-5000 from this mail in one click.

If you look at an hypergrid directory, say 
http://www.hyperica.com/?s=Openvue you'll see the link is:

secondlife://http://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002//128/128/128/

This doesn't work with Imprudence (you got the question mark).

secondlife://virtual.aiai.ed.ac.uk:8002:Vue-5000/ does.

I know Firestorm has a different syntax with !! and i still wonder why.


-- Jeff