Jeff Heaton

    The example car for this recipe is a bright-red two seater convertible. The car is not a true convertible, in that it does not convert. It is always in top-down mode. Because it never rains in Second Life, this is not a problem! The little red sports car is shown in Figure 5.2.

Figure 5.2: A Car in Second Life

    Often it is desirable to test whether a string is in a specific set of characters. Recipe 2.2 allows a string to be tested to see whether the string is a member of one of the following sets:

• Numeric
• Alphabetic
• Alphanumeric

    Recipe 2.2 is shown in Listing 2.2.

Listing 2.2: String Comparison (StringCompare.lsl)

    The Linden Scripting Language makes it very easy to compare two strings. To compare two strings, named stra and strb, use the following code:

    This chapter includes two recipes. These two recipes will demonstrate the following:

• Determining if a URL uses HTTPS
• Using HTTP authentication

    The first recipe will introduce you to some of the things that can be done with the HttpsURLConnection class. The second recipe shows how to access a site that uses HTTP authentication.

    This chapter includes four recipes. These four recipes will demonstrate the following:

• Scanning a URL for headers
• Searching a range of IP addresses for web sites
• Downloading a binary or text file
• Monitoring a site to see that it stays up

    These recipes will introduce you to some of the things that can be done with the HttpURLConnection class.