Capabilities

The viewer (and other client applications) can request capabilities from the simulators to gain access to certain features.

• Map from public URL to private URL
  • e.g. https://sim1001:12041/cap/uuid1
• Cap set

<map>
  <key>Asset upload</key>
  <uri>URI1</uri>
  <key>Seed capability</key>
  <uri>URI2</uri>
</map>

• Viewer knows public URL
• Internally, backbone stores both public and private URL

Flow for getting capabilities

• Viewer contacts login server requesting a particular capability
• Login server contacts sim
• Sim contacts backbone, sending a private uri corresponding to an action or service
• Backbone generates and returns a public uri corresponding to the private uri

Notes:

• Do not rely on the form of a capability, other than it must be http: or https:. Capabilities from the same source needn't point to the same host or port, and the path needn't start /cap.
• To get a list of the capabilities that the latest Second Life client is requesting, use this command^[1]:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/secondlife/viewer/contribute/indra/newview/llviewerregion.cpp | grep 'capabilityNames.append' | sed -E 's/(.*)"([[:alnum:]]+)"(.*)/\2/g'

See also: Tao Takaishi's blog discussion of capabilities

Some of the capabilities are listed on Current Sim Capabilities.