[sldev] Re: [VWR] summary of VWR-4021 discussion from 2008-01-08 AWGroupies meeting & general ho

[Robin Cornelius]

Matthew Dowd wrote:
>   
>> while this works with the LL grid, it does not work with OpenSim grids,
>> because the LL SL client has no clue that it needs to go to a different,
>> non-LL grid login service: 
>>     
>
> I must confess I prefered the solution proposed in http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3808
>   
Can i clarify which of the points you referrer to. There are a couple 
raised in that JIRA, one gives a legacylogin option for opensim etc 
grids (and thats what th patch does) and this is a temporary workaround 
for opensim really. My preferred solution is in the comments and that is 
for the authentication webpage to return the loginuri to use on the next 
stage of login.  This gives numerous advantages and means that grids can 
be added or removed ad-hoc without viewer updates. You want 2 beta grids 
today, just change the authentication webpage to give you the new 
option, all clients (who request a grid choice) can see it.

Also works well for opensim etc and is probably the most clean solution 
as the login destination is controlled by a single parameter not a whole 
bunch of parameters that are mutually inclusive.

Actually as this is now referring to a changes to the login 
authentication page we really should file this as a SVC? as thats where 
(the important) changes are required to implement this solution, the 
viewer just needs to parse one extra returned parameter in the 
secondlife:// protocol return which is fairly trivial. Of cause the 
command line options can be left there too for people who so desire.

Robin



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