Free Hosting Sites for fiddling with llHTTPRequest

I am trying to pick out a free hosting site to use to fiddle with such things as llHTTPRequest.

There's a nice page of links to such sites at: free-webhosts

I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations about free hosting sites.

FreeHostia.com looks like one that might work.

What sort of mail functions would a site need to make use of llEmail and such?

( To forestall questions about what I trying to do, I am fiddling around - playing - learning. I don't have a commercial project in mind. )

in my experiance for e-mail its good to have SSH login, which is basicly a os command line so you can set up your server exactly the way you want

most free sites donot include this ... but usually offer enugh e-mail forwarding and control options to do the job

since http request is out, i personally find little reason to use e-mail as outbound communications

for http bases systems you will need a scripting system, php is probally the most common since its open and free

html is predefined, and has to be written, systems like php and asp are called DHTML (the D is for dynamic) you can write scripts for these systems and input all kinds of data to them tru traditional html stuff, like url's and body (webserver.com/folder/page.php?varible1 = bob & varible2 = jane)

the scripting system will get the data, process it and output it in basicly any web happy format you want like plaintext, which makes it really ez for lsl, since you hardly do any processing inworld your just displaying output (thin client stuff)

couse with these systems you have embedded e-mail systems so you can have an object upload data, have your server process it, and then spam out the results in e-mail to mutiple objects @ once

actuall hosting, you want enugh space to do what you need, and about 5-20x that space in bandwidth to handle mutiple ppl

NO AD's !!!!
while you could use a server that slaps adds on every output page, its highly annoying and can be a real pain in the ass to filter out, + adding LSL stress, becuase alot of times every ad doesnt occupy the same space in the html output (theres quite a few free host out there that offer dhtml systems add free, and it saves a string search in LSL for the start of the info)

databases, my SQL is a common one, becuase its also open and free, but it aslo mimics microsoft SQL database, which theres alot of us MSSQL ppl out there that use it everyday, but would rather not pay the M$ price for customer data tracking, php itself handles every major database, just kinda depends on what the server is using

YOU DONT HAVE TO HAVE A DATABASE!!
simple scripts wouldnt even use a database, and its not a required part.. if you get a webhost that doesnt offer database access, and you actually need to store information most DHTML systems allow you to read and WRITE files on your server, altho not nearly as fast

If you can't go free I've just started working on a bluehost.com site. It's US$6/month and seems to be fully featured, has good working support and is otherwise all round successful.

Im offer webhosting for SL developers, My Unix Bronze account is £1.50 for all residents with a free mySQL database, have a look at http://www.fastmicro.co.uk and contant me ingame to get the special deal or discuss your requirments.

Im offer webhosting for SL developers, My Unix Bronze account is £1.50 for all residents with a free mySQL database, have a look at http://www.fastmicro.co.uk and contact me ingame to get the special deal or discuss your requirements.