I would like to take information input in-world and save it to an out-of-world web service. I would also like users to be able to view information gathered from a web service in-world. I have looked at prims, LSL, XMLHttpRequest, Notecards, HUDs, etc. and Bots. So I have read enough to be able to communicate and don't have the experience to really judge the best way to accomplish this.
Displaying information :
1. One way might be to create a HUD that looks for special prims that have timed updates to pull info from the web service or use a bot interface to push the updates into prims.
2. Another might be to invoke the the browser from an in-world prim where there several menu items to allow for url's with ?params=
Which is best? Are there others?
Saving information :
I have seen various interfaces in SL including a land owner survey but haven't found any information on to get forms style data from the user. WRT to saving I assume that XMLHttpRequest is the method of choice.
Would it be possible to develop a model where users drop info on a prim and use a bot to collect it?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Sterling