[sword-devel] jabber/yahoo etc. client

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Yiguang Hu wrote:

>
> On Jabber/MSN/Googletalk/ICQ/Yahoo/AIM/etc. Bible chat
> bot(Eeli Kaikkonen)
> Eeli,
> Did you tested it on yahoo IM? I used to do a project
> chat with yahoo IM using jymsg package and it worked
> for a while and then stopped. It seems that yahoo
> changed a little bit in their protocol and jymsg was
> not able to logon. There were rumors that yahoo
> manipulate their protocol occasionally to make people
> feel something.

I have not tested it yet with yahoo. If it works or not depends on the
yahoo transport/gateway used. It's true that commercial vendors change
their protocols every now and then without telling anyone - this has
happened with MSN (suprise!). Usually open source developers update
their code after some time.

I'll probably test the bot with all possible networks when I have time.
Anyone is of course welcome to use and test it - the more people the
better. And this project is not useful if no-one uses it.

> gtalk/jabber works well with xmpp.

Yes. XMPP is IETF standard, Jabber is XMPP + some
enhancements/proposals, and gtalk uses XMPP/Jabber protocol.


Eeli Kaikkonen