Sim Caps and Proxies

Are you planning on fixing the HTTP proxy support before turning on HTTP access to bulk content through Sim Caps?

I would be happy to help with the coding or testing.

[edit: clarification]

This is about the SL client using connections to port 80 or 443 to access anything (including resources on the sim, such as textures) from any server in the world (including, again, the sim).

From many locations, the ONLY way for any application running inside the firewall to get to these ports is via an explicit HTTP proxy connection.

That is, instead of (assuming the obvious definition of connectMySocket):

int s = connectMySocket("simfoo.bar.secondlife.com","80");

FILE *sp = fdopen(s, "rw");

fprintf(fp, "GET %s HTTP/1.0\n", "/textures/62718-379...382.tga");

You need to do:

int s = sonnectMySocket(proxyhost,proxyport);

FILE *sp = fdopen(s, "rw");

fprintf(fp, "GET %s HTTP/1.0\n", "http://simfoo.bar.secondlife.com:80/textures/62718-379...382.tga");

[etc...]

We'll make sure Zero Linden sees your post. Thanks for the offer to help!

I don't know what you mean by "turning on HTTP access to bulk content through Sim Caps". In my recent blog post I didn't not mean to imply that we would be enabling general HTTP access to any content. Only that a running, logged in viewer would use HTTP for access to some (and eventually much) of the information it needs from a simulator.

I'm guessing you are referring to some problem with proxies and LSL's llHTTPRequest(). If so, I'm not aware of any current problems. When scripts use that call, their HTTP requests do indeed use caching proxy (the common proxy, Squid). Please post / IM / e-mail me details if you know of a problem with it.