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

[Jeff Kelley]

At 11:39 AM +0100 6/5/13, Ai Austin wrote:

>Thanks Jeff, that's a useful summary... and the mixture of methods 
>and syntaxes just shows why its so complicated for new users ... add 
>in what works pasted into search in the map tool and its even more 
>choices... knowing what works and what does not really is over 
>complicated.

Typing in the map is less automatic, so i generally disregard it.

When hypergriding with friends, you need to communicate link. You use 
in-world chat and everybody just ^H to open history and click. No 
copy-paste.

If someone crashed, you use external IM : join me at secondlife://... 
Again, single-click in the IM window and your are there.

It relies on inter-process communication : an application decodes the 
URI, recognize the "secondfile://" scheme and pass it to the app 
registered as your sl client. This is the way HG web directories 
works.

This is the "old way". Now, we have !!!! hyperlinks.

Have a look at http://www.hyperica.com/

HG URL		secondlife://3d.newworldgrid.com:8002/128/128/128/
HG V3 URL 	secondlife://http|!!3d.newworldgrid.com|8002+

Both work if i paste them in my travel book (plain text file).

It works also in Imprudence's chat, provided you add the trailing slash.
(i think this is a flaw in Impru's URI parser, we shoud refer to 
rfc2396 to know).



>I think this needs the : style and does not allow spaces before the 
>region name.

I admit i've never seen a hyperlink with space *before* the region 
name. This would break the parsing, which must decide where the URI 
stops. That's why we use escape codes like %20. This is an 
alternative to bracketing.

<secondlife:///app/teleport/hg.osgrid.org:80:Lbsa Plaza>
secondlife:///app/teleport/hg.osgrid.org:80:Lbsa%20Plaza

are the same for an URI parser. Both will result in the same string 
with embedded spaces being passed to Imprudence/Firestorm.


-- Jeff