At 10:53 AM -0800 19/2/14, Mic Bowman wrote:
for a while simian provided a separate "launcher" application could
launch a viewer
and embed in the login URI your openid credentials (the launcher app
when installed
registered with the internet browser as a handler for a URL scheme).
It was pretty nice
because there was no need to set up login uris in the viewer at all
(and you didn't have
to "login" if you had an authenticated OpenID).
Most viewers parse the invocation arguments for grid and credentials,
so it is easy to launch them from a command line or another
executable. I never use the mouse to launch the viewer, instead I
type 'path_to_exe --loginuri -login' in a terminal, using predefined
bash variables for different grids, like "impru $OSG" to log into
OSGrid with Imprudence.
You can easily craft a launcher app which does the same thing.
Passing arguments directly from a web page to the viewer seems a
complex issue since handling of external apps may differ from a
browser to another. Usually, they don't like things that does not
conform to URI syntax, some hazardous encoding has to be used.
-- Jeff
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