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 user@bbs.com, 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. " 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 electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com - 416-273-7230 --- þ Synchronet þ electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com .