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

[Brandon Husbands]

Everything i do is httpbased... Would be nice.. i still wanna have php
on a prim wheere in the hud it acs as a www broswer w/o the controlls
of one to allow users to do things.

On 10/26/07, Mark Grandau <mgrandau at solidworks.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> The 2  example that comes to mind are:
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> 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.
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> Or Trying to do an AJAX like application in a HUD you could easily push the
> sim cap.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Mark
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