[sldev] Script to client channel.

[Dimentox]

Also the ownersay is spammy for people who are not using the custom viewer

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Argent Stonecutter <
secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2009-02-16, at 11:15, Thomas Shikami wrote:
>
>> Tony Dodd wrote:
>>
>>> As regards return traffic it is very easy to arrange for the viewer to
>>> send
>>> a string on some selected channel, though I suppose in the interests of
>>> clarity and security it might be better to add client to server messages
>>> with a new event type.
>>>
>>
>  This secure channel is already in the works, the viewer already supports
>> curl and the server side lsl scripts are about to support http_in.
>>
>
> I'm not sure how secure a channel this would be. There's nothing that tells
> a script that a connection via HTTP is coming from the client it's
> expecting. The chat version can be implemented securely enough for
> attachments to deal with any attack I can think of, since you can use
> llOwnerSay() for the script-client path, and verify the chat
> id==llGetOwner() for the response. If that's not good enough, then going to
> something with less authentication wouldn't be a step forward.
>
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