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A problem with wiki(s) and the embedded browser

Kliger Dinkin
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Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 46
06-01-2006 06:35
I love the new (almost) inworld web browser, especially using the SL Mozilla Gateway hack makes it useful. But I can't seem to bring up a wiki using it (for example the LSL wiki @ http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=HomePage).

Is there something I'm missing here? Thnx.

//Kliger.
Eep Quirk
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Join date: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,211
06-03-2006 01:26
Yes, you're missing the fact that the built-in ("in-world" sounds so stupid) web browser is ONLY for the Linden-created HTML pages AT THIS TIME. Trying to view any other HTML pages/websites is at your own risk.
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Kliger Dinkin
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Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 46
06-03-2006 02:43
From: Eep Quirk
Yes, you're missing the fact that the built-in ("in-world" sounds so stupid) web browser is ONLY for the Linden-created HTML pages AT THIS TIME. Trying to view any other HTML pages/websites is at your own risk.

Yeah, Eep, I've come to understand that... but the forums and the LSL wiki seem like they could actually be useful <G>. And for those of us who actually follow the forums and who need the LSL wiki to learn how to script, they are much more important than the Linden-created pages. Thnx anyway. :)
Eep Quirk
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Join date: 15 Dec 2004
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06-03-2006 02:48
Well, it's easy enough to use an external web browser anyway (SL windowed mode, of course)--there's more content area too that won't clutter up SL's interface any more than it already is.
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Lex Neva
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Join date: 27 Nov 2004
Posts: 1,361
06-03-2006 10:34
I've been toying around with this too, whether or not it's officially supported. I did some pretty serious investigation, and I found out why some pages (ie the LSL wiki, the secondlife.com homepage, and other pages) don't load at all in the embedded browser. It seems that if there's a Cache-Control: HTTP header in the response, the browser just doesn't do a thing, regardless of what the header contains. Unfortunately, that means the page I most want to view in the embedded browser, the LSL wiki, is inaccessible.

I'm guessing this is just a bug. One could get around it with some kind of specially written PHP script that fetched LSL wiki pages behind the scenes and edited the URLs in the body to refer back to itself, but I haven't gotten around to trying that yet. I also tried turning off everything related to caching in the embedded browser's settings file, but that didn't work either.