HTML-on-a-prim kills sims
by Tateru Nino 
Mar 8th 2008 at 11:15AM
Filed under: Bugs, Exploits, News items, Second Life
Well, the new HTML-on-a-prim feature in Second Life has one little tiny, teensy little problem. You can crash simulators with it. Sharp-eyed Gwyneth Llewelyn discovered, rather by accident, that you can reproducibly, reliably, and immediately crash a Second Life simulator by setting parcel media properties incorrectly.
The details are all filed in the public JIRA, and this one's definitely a showstopper. Get your voting fingers ready, and we strongly suspect an emergency fix to go out on this one really quickly. This feature should have gotten more time for public testing on the beta grid.
Like any at all, for example.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
natu said on 11:59AM 3-08-2008
how do you get html on a prim anyway?
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Patchouli Woollahra said on 4:22PM 3-08-2008
The same way you get other visual media streams in SL onto prim surfaces. the only awkward aspect of it is that you need to have enabled media viewing within Second Life to get webpages. This not really an ideal implementation (you don't really need Quicktime to browse a webpage in any form except for embedded quicktime streams), but it's a start.
Now all that's to do is to improve the implementation. Oh, and fix this blasted error - media settings should not be crashing the sim - they're not meant to be anything more than a parameter for clients to parse.
dandellion Kimban said on 12:17PM 3-08-2008
OK, spotted on time, JIRA filled, residents doing promotion of it (we can use some more, only 15 votes so far). If it gets fixed in reasonable time we can all be happy with how we go.
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 5:42PM 3-08-2008
it doesm't use quicktime at all anymore, for any type of media afaik
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Jay said on 7:55PM 3-08-2008
Didn't kill my Havok4 or my Havok1 sim, but Quarl Linden has acknowledged the error so this doesn't need votes.
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Gwyneth Llewelyn said on 8:23PM 3-08-2008
Indeed, Qarl Linden was assigned to it and it should be fixed quickly enough.
Jay, I actually wondered if it's only Mac-generated bytecode that crashes sims. Did you use Windows to compile and test it on your sims?
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Jay said on 12:51AM 3-09-2008
No, a Macintosh too, although the compiling of LSL is done by the simulator not by the client.
Using the code segment in the Jira. Maybe there is also something with the page being displayed... I had google showing.
I am sure though that Quarl will sort it out quick smart, he is pretty good at this stuff.
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