[sldev] [Viewer Auth] Office hour high points.

[Anders Arnholm]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:17:22PM -0700, David Kaprielian (Sabin) wrote:
> At Zero's office hours yesterday, we discussed a number of issues 
> surrounding scripted commerce, the safety of tying authentication into 
> the viewer, and alternative approaches like challenge-repsonse.  Listed 
> below is a brief summary of what was discussed.  You can read the full 
> transcript here: 
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Zero_Linden/Office_Hours/2007_Oct_16 
> Thank you to all who could join and help out!

Is this all a new version of users f**k off, I'm more and more convince
that the day a working alternative comes around second life will die.
Because of Lindens lab all over ability to ignore all its users base.

This idea was proposed here, you got tons of good feedback, loot of ideas
why this was bad and a better solutions all overt needed. Why isn't any
of this addresses in how the solutions is proposed, just a big letter
trying to dismiss it.

No web is not as secure, yes this give great problems for many users.o


# [13:14] Zero Linden: Today: viewer -->(xmlrpc)--> login web server
# [13:14] Tess Linden: Since the first release will not be mandatory, we
#         are working on ways to extend this for *some* third party
#         clients that do not build the mozilla component and use our
#         splash page
# [13:14] Zero Linden: Tomorrow: web --> go-in-world page --> internal
#         login services; web --> viewer; viewer --> login service 


Two main problems:
1) this add nothing for the users, more problems, with alternative
   browsers. More problems with alternative avatars.

2) This add nothing in the server end, it's doesn't make centralized
   authentications any easier, don't give you any cool extras here.
   It might seam like that internally, but you move code from one
   party of the viewer or an other part of the client program.

This problem have to be looked over at protocol level it's a protocol
problem not viewer, browser problem.

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