#POSTVIEW OPENSIM HOW TO#

The remaining part of the SLURL is the region name and the coordinate location within the region, X, Y, Z. The hidden part is: https: ///cgi-bin/login.cgi. Linden Lab then hides some of the address by building the domain name of their access server into the viewer. Next the '//' is there to signify the resource is on the network. The secondlife: part tells the computer to use the Second Life viewer. You see them written as secondlife: // Region /123/45/67/ To make a distinction and avoid an explanation Linden Lab describes linking to regions within their virtual world as using a SLURL. One then sees the resource, like a web page, displayed. Once that is found the program naviages the path to the resource /viewtopic.php. The program then asks at '66.147.242.90' for the location of the forums. Moving left to the domain ( forums.openuru.) is used to ask the ORG name server for an Internet Protocol address (e.g., 66.147.242.90). This tells the program which directory to use to find the server hosting the resource. Once the program opens it looks at the '//' to decide where it will look, in this case the '//' tells it the network or world wide web.Next it gets the Top Level Domain, the far right end of the string the blue org. The red http tells the computer which program to use to access the resource. These are read in a left-to-right and right-to-left dance. We are used to seeing URL's like http: // forums.openuru.

#POSTVIEW OPENSIM HOW TO#

The typical URL is a URI that provides information on how to connect (which program to use, i.e., an HTTP browser like Firefox) and the network location where the resource can be found. If you do not care about the detail of the coming system, skip down to: Creating a Usable Link for OthersĪ URL (Locator) and a URN (Name) are types of URI. Unfortunately the system has yet to be fully implemented. It would be nice to have something similar for OpenSIM locations. Click on a link in a web page or forum post and the Second Life viewer opens, one logs in, and is delivered to the location within Second Life. Second Life residents are familiar with web links to regions within Second Life.

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