llRequestURL() returns 127.0.0.1 ?

[Frigid Cryotank]

Hello -

An attempt to use llRequestURL() returned:

http://127.0.0.1:9999/lslhttp/0a1ab4aa- ... 459441f7b/

This is sort of ..unusable.. for an off-grid browser to contact an in-world server. 127.0.0.1 is being returned for the sandboxes where I had access, objects could be created, and scripting was permitted.

On a wild guess, an attempt to determine the off-world IP address of the simulator was tried by a request to http://checkip.dyndns.org .

That produced 62.75.221.49 (that's Startregion). A little scripting later and I had:

http://62.75.221.49:9999/lslhttp/0a1ab4 ... 459441f7b/

And that works. Having the script output that into the local chat window and left-clicking it caused the viewer (Singularity) to start Firefox. Firefox makes the request.. and "This is a test string" appears shortly afterwards.

I'm okay with scripting for replacing 127.0.0.1 with the IP produced by checkip.dyndns.org . But there are a few grids in the MultiVerse where requests to checkip.dyndns.org are trapped to produce some truly odd address. Is this likely to occur here?

--Frigid

[Ilan Tochner]

Hi Frigid,

That function should result in usable URLs in Kitely. Did you get the 127.0.0.1 result inside Kitely or in a sim running somewhere else?