Re: [Jamin] OSC address names

[Steve H. <S.W...@ec...>]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:02:28 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:07:20 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > > It is not immediately obvious whether liblo handles relative URI's.
> > > Would it accept "/jamin/scene" and route to the same port?
> 
> Steve Harris <S.W...@ec...> writes:
> > I dont think relative URIs have any real meaning in OSC, and I can't
> > remenber what liblo does, probably a parse error - its URI handling is
> > very crude.
> 
> Wouldn't defaulting the "osc.udp://localhost:4444" part make sense?
> It would use the default port and protocol on the local host.  That
> leaves "/jamin/scene" for message routing.  Within JAMin, we could
> even abbreviate to "scene", I suppose.  This is somewhat analogous to
> a relative URL reference within a web site.

You can create an address "object" by giving the top level URI, then
address individual pakets to a top level path relative to the server part
(and the reverse for creating servers).

You cant use real relative URLs though.

- Steve