[sldev] Web on a prim

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-03-24, at 18:07, Lawson English wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> On 2008-03-24, at 12:42, Nicholas Chase wrote:
>>> So now we have web-on-a-prim by using the media URL, and Qarl  
>>> says that they're planning to release the ability to actually  
>>> interact with the pages soon, which is what motivated the LSL  
>>> touch position functions.
>>

>> Being able to serve web pages from LSL scripts, with images and  
>> embedded objects sourced from prim inventory, would be the best  
>> next step.

> I was thinking that as well, BUT, you need limitations on what can  
> accessed from inventory. If nothing else, if you have a "local  
> host" page (the prim inventory), you need to make sure that ONLY  
> "local host" things can be accessed from that webpage. Otherwise,  
> you can attempt to access grey goo numbers of external web pages...

Oh yes, fetching anything not local to the prim would absolutely have  
to be denied or require the user to approve an external link. I don't  
know if Gecko can do that level of internal firewalling though.