what is http texture?...

[koto Nizna]

..and what's the use of this option?

[Peewee Musytari]

I don`t know what it is other than its connected to texture rendering & causes massive problems for some people so they need to disable it.

[Claireschen Hesten]

http get textures pulls textures direct from the servers and doesn't have to go through the extra step of rezzing on the sim first i'm not sure the feature works 100% properly i have heard of it causing some issues

[Void Singer]

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/HTTP_Texture for the technical details.

but essentially, it uses a different protocol (http, rather than udp) to pull textures in whole... potentially from ANY server (and not just LL's assest servers). this bypasses the normal mechanism for a texture to be streamed from the asset server to the region server, and then the region server streaming it to the clients.

they *should* load completely in one pass, and not need to "rez", but it seems the most frequent problem is that they don't, and end up in a partially loaded state. there have been reports of crashes and constantly reloading textures associated with the feature.