[Opensim-users] Connecting from an external program

[Justin Clark-Casey]

On 04/03/13 21:13, MeghanaEngineer wrote:
> Hello,
> I am looking to connect an external program that sends text messages to an
> object in world. I am not sure a how this can be accomplished.I used sockets
> to implement the communication. However I am stuck trying to identifying
> scripting tools/technologies that can do that. I tried a C# program with not
> much success. My objective is finding out different ways that I could do
> this and then explore each method in detail. Any pointers I could get to
> start the process would be very helpful
> Thanks,
> Shruti

A popular mechanism is via LSL HTTP [1].  A script can request and listen for incoming data to an URL on the simulator. 
  This is fully implemented (afaik) on OpenSimulator.

[1] http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_HTTP

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