[sldev] Capabilities URLs

[Rob Lanphier]

On 9/1/07 5:51 PM, Dale Glass wrote:
> On Sunday 02 September 2007 02:31:20 Harold Brown wrote:
>   
>> The cap URLS I posted do not require authentication, and as such appear
>> to be static at the moment
>>     
> Ok, that's good to know, thanks :-)
>
> Then the list only shows the ones that require authentication and you have 
> permission to use?
>
> If so, where is the list of services that anybody can use?
>   

This thread spawned a long thread about what we should and shouldn't be
encouraging on this front.  To summarize:

*  We have two classes of cap.secondlife.com URLs:   One used by the web
team for the reg API and the APIs in Harold's message.  The other used
by the simulator for giving viewers access to various functions.
*  The former (web services APIs) are fine to publish, though they may
not be stable APIs.  Use at your own risk.
*  The latter (simulator access grants to the viewer) should be kept
private.  You really shouldn't be sharing those.
*  The two classes of caps URLs are visually indistinguishable.  Yes, we
know that's a problem.

Much love to whoever finds a home for this information on the wiki (and
actually posts it).

Rob


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