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

[Ai Austin]

>From: Jeff Kelley <opensim at pescadoo.net>
>What is the 'hop' scheme? Maybe your computer knows how to handle it.
>Mine doesn't. Is it an attempt to get rid of a trademark in schemes?
>If so, it should be registered to IANA.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

I see the hop:// type link in Firestorm 4.4.0 OS whenever I teleport 
on or between OpenSim grids.  I assumed it was something added by the 
server side in OpenSim (can an OpenSim dev state if this s the case 
or not?).. but maybe its just a viewer side things and perhaps only 
in Firestorm?

Its NOT something that my (Windows) operating system level 
recognizes, so the viewer is not installing itself with an 
association to the hop:// URI protocol scheme, which if its to be 
generally useful it ought to.

Anyway, I asked about this on the FireStorm JIRA issue related to 
trying to make hypergrid and OpenSim teleport jumps (hops) much more 
uniform and to try to get them working in more contexts.

http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-10549#comment-113564

There are just so many variants here...  it could use a radical 
simplification and tidy up. But maybe I am missing the point and 
their are good reasons for all these variants, multiple colon forms, 
and the use of spaces in the before region names in recent HG 
addresses and so on that are vital.