[X3D-Public] Is there a 'base url' for VRML/X3D browsers?

[Dave A]

Since I need this to work consistently in all players/browsers, I ended 
up using a script (which, that is, I HOPE works in all players!). Worst 
case I make it part of the messaging protocol I'm using to talk to the 
server.

On 8/2/2011 3:47 AM, Zlatomir Zarkov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Did you try different web browsers? I didn't notice any
> problem when pages are online but locally it seems that relative
> path depends on the web browser. I think problem appeared with
> Opera and Safari. However, there is a function for base url in
> Contact, check developer section on BS site.
>
> regards,
> Zlatomir
>
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>> Lauren,
>>
>> I'm running Contact in a web page served remotely, but the path it's
>> using (for relative urls) is local.
>> So I don't think of it as running locally because it sits on a web page
>> that came from outside.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On 8/1/2011 3:17 AM, GLG wrote:
>>> You seem to have this right Dave, but I suspect you
>>> are attempting to run it locally thus the localhost
>>> path. Loading your world from an online domain will
>>> produce the right path. Place your php file in the same
>>> directory as your world or use things like ../phppath/.
>>> As for your other question about base path you can
>>> create your own SFString field. That will do the trick.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Lauren
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: x3d-public-bounces at web3d.org [mailto:x3d-public-
>>>> bounces at web3d.org] On Behalf Of Dave A
>>>> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 5:35 AM
>>>> To: 'x3d public mailing list'
>>>> Subject: [X3D-Public] Is there a 'base url' for
>>>> VRML/X3D browsers?
>>>>
>>>> Hello again,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Contact, I'm not seeing this, at least as
>>>> anything standard,
>>>> am I missing it?
>>>>
>>>> What I need to know is the 'base url', that is, the
>>>> domain and path,
>>>> that my content is served from. Or more precisely, I
>>>> DON'T want to know
>>>> it, I'd like to be able to use relative paths,
>>>> specifically for using
>>>> createX3DFromURL and such.
>>>>
>>>> Say I have a script that calls thus:
>>>>
>>>> Browser.createX3DFromURL ('generate.php', this,
>>>> 'loaded');
>>>>
>>>> Where does the 'generate.php' file need to be? My
>>>> experiments seem to
>>>> indicate that it is on the client machine. Meaning, if
>>>> I serve a page
>>>> containing the plugin from www.mydomain.com, I expect
>>>> that it will call
>>>> http://www.mydomain.com/generate.php, but instead it
>>>> seems to want
>>>> http://localhost/generate.php, I'm guessing because it
>>>> has been cached
>>>> to the local drive and hence runs from there.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a policy on this?
>>>>
>>>> I do see that Contact provides a script extension that
>>>> I could parse to
>>>> find the current url. How widely are such API's out
>>>> there? Xj3D,
>>>> FreeWRL, Instant, etc?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Dave A.
>>>>
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