[sldev] IDEA: HUD Objects should do HTTPrequests from the client not through the SIM.

[Mark Grandau]

I understand why objects in a sim make HTTPrequests through the sim;
everyone may be exposed to the result. But HUD objects are only viewable
to the one client. This would  off-load HTTP traffic for applications
that wanted to do more HTTPrequest than the sim cap would allow with no
settling time. 

 

The 2  example that comes to mind are:

A directed voting Q/A session. Something is presented to 30 people. The
presenter is asking a few questions that he is seeing rt feedback from a
webserver. 

 

Or Trying to do an AJAX like application in a HUD you could easily push
the sim cap.

 

I understand that a user could be potentially exposing their IP, but
there are so many things people use in their daily computer life that do
that. To me that is not a security issue.

 

The only other bad thing I came up with was that wearing this HUD object
you could be unknowingly participating in an attack on website. The
HTTPrequest could inform the user of the domain it was accessing
thereby removing the unknowingly part.

 

Mark

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