Re: [x3d-public] Re: [www-vrml] RE: In Order For a 3D Internet To Work

["Jason Robinson" <jrobinson@kitchenpages.com>]

Hi Lauren,
I think there are work-arounds but these All require too much time to crack
for every browser combo to work, or the user is to adjust security settings,
or document is to run from local machine (like a bounce, proxy), etc.  In
IE5 and perhaps IE6 beyond its just a matter of re-setting the 'last' loaded
domain to the required target (can only really be done using base element
when caller document is 'locally' hosted).  A Java component or ActiveX
could write to a local document but again only if the browser accepts such
(not sure Java is included with IE anymore).

At a guess perhaps goo SOAP API methods could be used to generate the query
(limits apply, etc). An example I found is at
http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html at the end of the page (no idea
if this kind of thing still works from 2002/4/5/6 into 2007).

Apart from that I think your stuck with bouncing stuff on CGI/PHP/Other or
even creating search database on the same domain your running from.

v3 is looking good

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lauren Gauthier" <info@3dnetproductions.com>
To: "'Jason Robinson'" <jrobinson@kitchenpages.com>
Cc: <x3d-public@web3d.org>; <www-vrml@web3d.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:27 AM
Subject: RE: [x3d-public] Re: [www-vrml] RE: In Order For a 3D Internet To
Work



Jason Robinson wrote;
>I couldn't wait and I decided to play with the VRGS page
>now at version 0.02 to allow a IE5.5sp2 xmlRequest of the
>google page (xmlRequest like this will not work in IE6+,
>Ff, Ns, etc). As a play thing I modified the VRGS pages in
>http://www.kitchenpages.com/tmp/vrgs.zip to a find Anchor
>elements with Class Attribute of 'l' and write the HREF
>result to a new window. The RSS option sounds good
>considering problems with HTML like access denied when
>crossing domains would be overcome as I could instead
>bounce RSS from a server, aggergrate app, etc.


The XMLHTTP object could be perfect if it worked across
domain in current browsers for our purpose. However, I have
implemented part of the Ajax3D framework as Joe suggested.
It gets us a little closer but not quite there. At this
point I'm still debating what would be the best way to parse
Google result pages for URLs which could then be displayed
in text or represented by objects in the X3D scene, or even
inline the resulting X3D scenes themselves in that original
scene. I might have to go the CGI-Perl way to do this but
then we'd have to reload the scene, unless I find a way to
use XMLHTTP that way. Any better ideas?

VRGOO v. 0.03
http://www.3dnetpro.com/vrgoo/

Cheers,
Lauren

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