Caught ghgl plugin establishing connection to herokuapp.com? Why?

diff-arch · January 7, 2021, 6:14pm

Hi,

I’m curious, what’s happening in the background, when the ghgl addon has established a connection to ghgl-glslify.herokuapp.com?

stevebaer · January 7, 2021, 7:02pm

glslify allows for the functions that GhGL provides to get properly built into the GLSL code. The source for GhGL that uses this feature can be found at

github.com

mcneel/ghgl/blob/master/src/GlslifyPackage.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ghgl
{
    class GlslifyPackage
    {
        static System.Net.Http.HttpClient _glslifyClient;

        static string PackageServerUrl
        {
            get
            {
                //return "http://localhost:8080";
                return "https://ghgl-glslify.herokuapp.com";
            }
        }

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The ghgl-glsiify server source is available at

This is a server specific to supporting GhGL.

The original glslify project can be found at

diff-arch · January 7, 2021, 7:05pm

Very interesting! Thanks for your reply, Steve.

stevebaer · January 7, 2021, 7:09pm

This server will only be called when functions in the menu as shown below are inserted into the GLSL.

If you don’t want the server to be called in the future, you click on the “glslify code” menu entry to convert the functions into code directly embedded in the GLSL.

diff-arch · January 7, 2021, 7:14pm

Haha, I have already blocked it with my firewall. I was just about to lift the ban after your great explanation. Thanks for the addendum, too.