[sldev] [Upcoming Changes] Website Viewer Authentication

[Donovan Linden]

We actually have more information about the situation we are in with  
the linux viewer; with the first iteration, the splash page will  
contain a login form implemented in html. The internal mozilla will  
be able to log in on linux (on all platforms) without any  
dependencies on how the operating system handles secondlife: urls.

Donovan

On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:31 -0700, David Kaprielian (Sabin) wrote:
>> In any case, I wanted to take a moment and send to this list some
>> security changes Linden is going to make in order to further the  
>> efforts
>> of anti-fraud and phishing prevention.  Pretty soon we're going to
>> consolidate logins to our website so we can eventually centralize the
>> process.
>
> And here I thought we were trying to decentralize things.
>
>> This method works for Windows and Mac machines, but unfortunately  
>> due to
>> the nature of how Linux handles secondlife:/// links (it doesn't), we
>> have been unable to come up with a proper, catch-all solution that  
>> would
>> allow this method of login to work for 100% of the Linux using
>> population.  We estimate (aka: make an educated guess) that we can  
>> catch
>> about 70% of Linux users at first and will be working to get that  
>> number
>> as close to 100% as possible.  However, because there are so many
>> different distributions and configurations of Linux available,  
>> there's
>> always the possibility of people who cannot launch Second Life  
>> from the
>> website.
>
> Which is why LL should focus on working with Linux distributions to  
> get
> Second Life into the distributions themselves, rather than  
> distributing
> binary blobs.
>
>> With this information, I wanted to get your feedback!  Do you think
>> there's a way we could make website viewer authentication work for  
>> all
>> Linux users?  Do you have any specifications for how this will  
>> interact
>> with your third party viewers and applications?  Anything I haven't
>> covered that you're worried about?  Thanks for your time everyone,  
>> we'd
>> love to hear what you have to say.
>
> The viewer already has a web browser in it. (Every program attempts to
> expand until it contains a web browser that can read email. Those
> programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.)
> _______________________________________________
> Click here to unsubscribe or manage your list subscription:
> /index.html