January 23, 2008
the end of proprietary IM protocols is near?!
filed at around evening time by DrScofield in: from the grid
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just read florian jensen’s blog entry on “AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber” — interesting! interesting for two reasons:

  1. XMPP is also the underlying protocol of my vu*gate project :-)
  2. it adds quite a bit of momentum to the jabber/XMPP “movement” — AOL is not a mom-and-pop instant messaging service

nice to see standards succeed :-)

of the big ones, that leaves MSN and, erm, sametime. hmm.

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using python’s xmlrpclib with OpenSim
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this morning ansi and i were wondering how we could do XmlRpc calls to OpenSim. well, this is what we found out:

  • to have a reasonable XmlRpc experience™ you should enable the remote admin interface, to do so just add the following lines to your OpenSim.ini file:
        [RemoteAdmin]
        enabled = true
        access_password = secret
  • next open up your-editor-of-choice™1 and use the following piece of python code2

run and you should see on OpenSim’s region console:

[RADMIN] [01-23 04:17:10] Broadcasting: the answer is 42

and, of course, an alert popup in your SL viewer:

message from god

  1. yep, found the “™” key combination for my keyboard ;-) ↩

  2. i’m using a standalone OpenSim installation. ↩

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