[sldev] [Upcoming Changes] Website Viewer Authentication

[Donovan Linden]

The web_login_key must be given to login.cgi within 5 minutes, or it  
expires.

Bots will require additional work to log in using the new scheme,  
which involves POSTing the username and password to a well-known web  
location, and retrieving the web_login_key from the Location: header  
of the reply, before passing the web_login_key to login.cgi.

However, the first iteration will continue to support the old login  
method of passing the username and password to login.cgi, so bots  
which log in using the old method will continue to work for a while  
longer.

Donovan

On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Erik Anderson wrote:

> How long would these secondlife:// authentications last?  it seems  
> that without some additional work this would effectively remove the  
> ability to run bots.
>
> On 9/28/07, Harold Brown <labrat.hb at gmail.com> wrote:
> This does seem to pose another issue....  What if I want to use  
> multiple clients?  You wouldn't be able to pick which client to  
> use, Standard, RC, First Look, Nicholaz, SLeek.. etc.
>
>
> On 9/28/07, Candide LeMay <candide.lemay at gmail.com > wrote:
> from the wiki:
>
> '"I have separate accounts that I use. How does this affect me?"
>
> Yes. If you wish to use a separate Second Life account, you must log
> out of your current account on the website and then log in with your
> separate account.'
>
> that's very cumbersome! I have several accounts (work, testing etc) I
> use daily and often at the same time (running several SL instances at
> once). I don't want to be logging in and out all the time on a
> website. On top of that, I start SL with a script, to feed it command
> line switches (for allowing multiple instances), start with lower
> priority, various stuff. I don't want the only way to start SL to be
> via secondlife://
>
> candide
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