Subj : Re: I have an Idea
To : Fireball
From : echicken
Date : Thu Feb 07 2013 11:35 am
Re: Re: I have an Idea
By: Fireball to echicken on Thu Feb 07 2013 18:09:38
Fi> Very good point! There is a javascript jabber library already out there;
Fi>
https://github.com/sstrigler.
I'll take a look at that. Depending on what it was written for, it may or may
not translate well for our purposes.
Fi> The problem I see with a client/client is there needs to be a server
Fi> somewhere in there. Connecting directly to google's servers requires a
Fi> google account for each bbs user. Now if one could figure out how to setup
Fi> a jabber server with google talk access (not hard to do really), and
Fi> import the users from sbbs so they could each use it to connect to the
Fi> service via
[email protected], that'd be cool. Then the paging could be
Fi> bidirectional.
There are a few possibilities:
Create a Jabber server for Synchronet, with the ability to federate with other
(including Synchronet) Jabber servers. Your various IM clients could connect
to this server. It would just use your existing user DB. There could maybe be
some sort of interBBS contact list population.
Just use Google Talk, with one account for your BBS. When a user "pages" you
on the BBS, this account logs in and sends you a message, eg. "<username> is
paging you for chat." You'd just need to read that message to know who is
using your BBS' Jabber account at a given time. Granted if more than one
person paged you at once, this could get confusing.
Some sort of magical gating between your BBS' existing IRC server and your IM
protocol of choice.
For direct user to user interBBS paging, there are other possibilities and the
whole Jabber thing isn't entirely necessary, not that it wouldn't work.
MCMLXXIX and I have some JSON-service stuff in place on our systems for this,
and it works nicely.
echicken
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