Why should you use secondlife:// instead of http://slurl.com/secondlife/

Because it's much faster !

If you are on a Web page and you click (1) on for example a hyperlink to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Grasmere/163/111/27/ a new page opens (which will force you to press the back button later), you have to wait for it to load and you need the Flash plugin, then you have to click (2) Teleport for the Second Life viewer to (launch if not running and) display a teleport floater that you have to click (3) to actually be teleported.

While if on that same Web page you click on a hyperlink to secondlife://Grasmere/163/111/27/ you are already at step (2) (and you saved around 14 seconds).

The only real interest of slurl.com is to show you the map when you are not in-world.

Note : If you click on http://slurl.com/secondlife/Grasmere/163/111/27/ from the Communicate floater (because someone attempts to teleport you there this way) it's even worse because it will launch a browser thus making even another long step. But this isn't true anymore since there is now a built-in browser and that type of URL is recognized.


secondlife:// is the fastest way to send Web visitors to an in-world location but it's also the fastest way to teleport many residents from a group chat - there is a dozen of scripts that can generate a secondlife:// for your avatar's current location, most of them are named "SLURL something".

I wondered why some links open the map and some just do a teleport

thank you!!!

That was a cool tidbit of info

Struth!... They even work with firefox in linux. I had never tried because they havnt worked till now. The linux client IS beta!
and yes I gave up keeping up with changes a long long time ago.

Because slurls also work if the person clicking the link doesn't have sl installed.
They will go to the web map, still get the info, and csn decide to look into it further.

secondlife:: urls without the sl client installed will just produce a 'unknown protocol' error from your browser.

So use slurls if you want to keep your links working for everybody all the time, use secondlife::// urls, when only wanting to offer direct teleports to sl residents.

Well considering how secondlife:// is useful to residents, how http://slurl.com/secondlife/ is useless to non residents and how many residents VS non residents use web teleportation...

I get this error when I try to click on any SLURL but I do have SL installed so I'm not sure why it's doing that. I used to be able to reach SLURLs just fine before the migration to 1.19 and since then... it's broke for me.