[opensource-dev] FAQ posted for Third Party Viewer Policy

[Boroondas Gupte]

Bryon Ruxton schrieb:
> Of course, I know that Tigro. But just like any web site can detect a
> user-agent and block it,
True, but that's not its purpose. If you use it for blocking, you'll
hurt honest clients the most. Can you say VWR-16262
<http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-16262> and SNOW-534
<http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-534>?
> I'd like to be able to detect the viewer agent,
> (perhaps via llGetAgentInfo) of the avatar getting on my land anyway.
> Such would be useful for various other reasons such a compatibility checks,
>   
Compatibility checks should be done by the grid's login and sim servers.
Except of course for streaming media and web content, for which the web
or streaming server can do it, based on HTTP user agent and Accept
request-header
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.1>. Except
the user agent might (have to!) be spoofed in the future, even by
Snowglobe and the official Viewer, due to stupid blocking (see issues
linked above).

For new features (e.g. in the style of RLV), I strongly advise to use
protocol versioning and protocol negotiation, so that all compatible
clients can use them, and not only the ones known in advance to be
compatible.
> analysis of traffic sources, who you visitors are etc...
Maybe we shouldn't only require a privacy policy from viewer developers
but also from land owners?

Boroondas
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