[sldev] Re: Security, security, and security! And chat.

[Argent Stonecutter]

Regarding:
> Method
> Exposing the viewer as a hierarchy of xpcom interaces to the  
> mozilla engine, Leverage this interface with the XUL engine,  
> essentially allowing viewer to download and run XUL apps.
>
> Problems/Obstacles
> Security, security and security

Gah.

Indeed, especially since Mozilla hasn't solved the "security" part of  
this... the way they install XPI is just plain broken.

What about communication with external scripts? Is there a way in the  
protocol to implement my idea of connecting a chat channel in SL with  
a socket on localhost? You can send chat to a specific channel from  
the client, I know, but can you get chat back from that channel  
without having to have a listening prim proxy it?