Intergrid logins made easy with the rezzme URL scheme
I found a nice new project yeasterday: The rezzme:// URI scheme is a method to bookmark virtual places that goes far deeper than the secondlife:// or SLurl system, which both are limited to Second Life.
Usage (examples):
rezzme://example.net:9000/ (Log into a certain Simulator)
rezzme://Torrid%20Luna@primforge.org:9009/ (" with a certain Avatar name)rezzme://opensim.zurich.ibm.com:9000/zurela/128/34/23 (Go to a special place within this Grid)
Of course, just defining a new URL scheme does nothing yet, you need a program that understands the URL scheme. Under http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/rezzme/scmsvn/?action=AccessInfo there’s a protocol handler, written in Python/Qt4, that is able to parse the rezzme-Scheme and bookmark the URLs. It even enables you to define several different clients to open certain adresses with, so if you want to use the Meerkat or Hippo viewer for a certain address, this is no problem.
The handler is available for Win and Linux so far, a Mac version should follow soon. It simply saves the bookmarks and defined clients in 2 files in your home directory, .rezzme.clients and .rezzme.bookmarks. By adding the rezzmy.py program to your Firefox config you will be able to start these clients by simply clicking a Web URL.
Way cool.
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January 20th, 2009 at 12:08
Hi, could you share a few hints on how you made this work. I downloaded rezzme and tried to build a windist binary with Python 2.6. Rezzme installs, registers – but works neither on IE6 nor on Mozilla for me. What may I have missed ? Thx in advance.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:11
Hi Ezekiel,
I succeded building it in Linux, Python 2.5, and a manually installed PyQt: “python setup.py build; make install”. After that you can call it from the commandline with a rezzme://-Url as argument.The integration in the browser didn’t work for me yet.
With the new version from subversion, the setup.py install works too, and it gives some hints on howto integrate that in the Firefox configuration.
January 22nd, 2009 at 14:57
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