There is an example of two-way http communication, it is used in the x10 example: http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/How_to_Connect_Home_Automation_-_X10
Jani 2009/4/9 Toni Alatalo <ant...@kyperjokki.fi> > > yuzo wrote: > > From my limited understanding, the Iron Python scripts for REX live on > > the server. The LSL scripts seem to me something you construct in an > > editor on the viewer. > > > > both are on the server, and executed on the server. > > in opensim using the same scriptengine i think, am actually not 100% > sure of the details there now. > > true, there is the difference that rexscripts you edit on the server, > whereas lsl you can edit via the viewer. but that just a UI and a > storage difference in the end, does not make a difference with regard to > the execution, which is essentially similarily within an opensim plugin > (and iirc using the same scriptengine). > > a major difference is that the rexscript ones can pretty much do > anything, are like opensim region modules too in that sense, can access > the system etc. like in any .net code i think. that's because it's full > ironpython also, which can do anything c# can. so only for region owners > in that sense i guess. Adam has been now working on the mini region > module (MRM) system for Opensim and looking into sandboxing execution > contexts with the .net tools (the one he was thinking of is not > supported in Mono). > > afaik the lsl ones are converted to c# source and compiled, haven't > looked at that part of scriptengine now. security i guess comes just > from the fact that, err, only valid lsl is parsed and it can't do stuff > like import .net modules? dunno. > > > Does it make a difference if a script written in LSL by my avatar's > > viewer gets information from a data source and uses it, or if I do > > something similar as an Iron Python script? It just feels like the > > Iron Python script would be accessible globally and I would assume > > that scripts are local to the avatar associated with its creation. Of > > course my understanding may be completely off. > > > > there is no association from a rexscript module or class to avatars or > any other objects. > > basically any object can use any such script, i.e. be declared to be an > instance of that class. of course just the object owner can change the > property that which script is used for the object. > > > Yuzo > > > > ~Toni > > > On Apr 8, 12:58 pm, Toni Alatalo <ant...@kyperjokki.fi> wrote: > > > >> Jeroen van Veen wrote: > >> > >>> if other python libs can be imported, maybe it can be done with pycurl? > >>> > >> basics are also in the stdlib, > http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html > >> > >> filehandle = urllib.urlopen(some_url, proxies=proxies) > >> > >> i guess the way to use curl within .net (which the server, being > >> opensim, is) would be via some .net wrapper, dunno, if you needed that > >> for some reason. > >> > >> and like said in the other post, it may be also a good idea to do what > >> opensim does on the c# side, what you would do in an opensim region > >> module perhaps (of course rexscript can also expose it by wrapping > >> something itself, or using what is exposed for LSL (which are what > >> rexscript usually uses)). > >> > >> > >>> Jeroen > >>> > >> ~Toni > >> > >> > >>> On Wednesday 08 April 2009 18:55:13 Jani Pirkola wrote: > >>> > >>>> Toni, > >>>> isn't it possible to send http get requests from python directly? Or > at > >>>> least open tcp socket and write the get request there? What do I need > to do > >>>> to enable needed libraries, ie does python in rex work as it was any > python > >>>> environment? > >>>> > >>>> Jani > >>>> > >>>> 2009/4/8 Toni Alatalo <ant...@kyperjokki.fi> > >>>> > >>>>> zeshu wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I have some data on a php web page.Now i need that data in > realXtend.i > >>>>>> checked two methods in LSL one is httprequest and XML-RPC.How i can > >>>>>> use these functions in Python. > >>>>>> > >>>>> are they exposed in the rexscript system? basically it always calls > the > >>>>> opensim scripting api, > >>>>> i.e. is same as the lsl impls. > >>>>> > >>>>> i think you can also use any .net library that your system has > installed > >>>>> on your server, > >>>>> similarily to how use in it c# but just within ironpython (which > >>>>> rexscript uses). > >>>>> > >>>>> ~Toni > >>>>> > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
