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marty
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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 2:23 pm    Post subject: VDS Open Source Project - Instant Messaging - Interested? Reply with quote

Hello,

I was thinking of doing an open source project with VDS for an Instant Messaging application integrated with an Mail client using VDSIPP.DLL.

The application would have the following features:

- Instant messaging functionnalities similar to MSN Messenger.
- Chat possibilies with multiple users at the same time
- Buddie list
- TaskIcon notification of incoming messages
- POP email client (Support for HTML formatted emails)
- SMTP Functionnalities
- A bit of nice visual effects such as Flash and sounds
- I would supply the machine for hosting the server part.


And maybe more... but for now thats enought ... Wink

The protocol for the Instant messaging part would be UDP I think


So if your interested to participate post your ideas/comments...

This open source project would be a VDS community project. So if there's enought people willing to work on this project, I will possibly do a webpage for the project.

Thanks Very Happy

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PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2002 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You know you can count me in! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed May 08, 2002 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Open source VDS... I like it! Sweet idea! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a great idea!
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm interested! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 3:04 pm    Post subject: Still available? Reply with quote

I would like to help with this too.

Is it still a open project?


Very Happy Bry
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well its still open of course, right now Im investigating the possibility of using a VDS client that will enable a realtime chats with a list of users online.

The VDS client will connect to a CGI script on a server.

I currently dont have time now to work on that. Skit started working on a converted version of my Flash client. He converted it to VDS but there seems to be problems with the refreshing of the messages list and users lists. Still under investigation.

STay tuned...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the example Marty told about.

The script uses CGI, so you can communicate with it by using
internet http,post,1,http://www.extremesenses.com/cgi-bin/vdschat.cgi,command=whateveryoulike

The commands are the following:

todo=get : This will get all the posted messages
todo=post&name=yournickname&text=yourtext : This will post a new message.

You can always use the name=yournickname command to identify yourself to the server.

Everytime you make a connection to the server it will send an online list and a list with all the messages.
You have to parse them to use it. (See the example code)

Note that VDS/vdsipp.dll doesn't support to stay connected to a CGI server, so the online list doesn't work like it should. The only thing I know to solve that is to make your own CGI client with TCP/IP...

Code:

external vdsipp.dll
%%nickname = @input(What is your nickname?)

internet http,create,1
internet http,threads,1,on
internet http,protocol,1,1
internet http,useragent,1,"VDSWORLD Chat"

  DIALOG CREATE,VDSWORLD Chat,-1,0,295,197
  DIALOG ADD,EDIT,eMessages,4,4,286,164,,,MULTI,WRAP,READONLY,SCROLL
  DIALOG ADD,EDIT,eMessage,172,4,218,19
  DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,bSend,172,226,64,18,Send,,DEFAULT
  DIALOG SHOW
goto Timer

:Evloop
wait event,1
%%event = @event()
goto %%event

:Timer
rem Checks for new messages
internet http,post,1,http://www.extremesenses.com/cgi-bin/vdschat.cgi,todo=get&name=%%nickname
goto evloop

:bSendBUTTON
rem Sends a new message
internet http,post,1,http://www.extremesenses.com/cgi-bin/vdschat.cgi,todo=post&name=%%nickname&text=@dlgtext(eMessage)
dialog set,eMessage,
goto evloop

:Http1onpostdone
rem If there is a new message this code will parse all the extra stuff out of it and sets the message into eMessages
%%data = @trim(@internet(http,content,1))
%%backupmessage = @trim(@internet(http,content,1))
%%messages =

repeat
if @equal(@substr(%%data,1,1),@chr(10))
  %%messages = %%messages@cr()@chr(10)
  else
  %%messages = %%messages@substr(%%data,1,1)
  end
%%data = @strdel(%%data,1,1)
until @equal(@len(%%data),0)

repeat
%%messages = @strins(@strdel(%%messages,@pos(>+,%%messages),@succ(@pos(>+,%%messages))),@pos(>+,%%messages),"> ")
until @greater(1,@pos(>+,%%messages))


%%messages = @strdel(%%messages,1,@fadd(@pos(messages,%%messages),8))
%%messages = @strdel(%%messages,@diff(@len(%%messages),10),@len(%%messages))

dialog set,eMessages,%%messages

goto evloop

:Close
rem Added the following line to avoid VDS from crashing
internet http,destroy,1
exit
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 09, 2002 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well here`s the CGI part to complete Skits post...

Maybe it can help complete the VDS code.

I think its a good start for the project.

The VDS code of Skit was based on the chat client made in flash that I have. You can try out the flash client by downloading this:



Unzip and drag the SWF file to an opened Web browser window

CGI Code for the server part:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#VDSWORLD LIVE CHAT

# Setup the Variables

$basedir="/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/cgi-bin";
$messagefile="messages.dat";
$userfile="users.dat";
#$emotefile="emote.dat";
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

if (!$ARGV[0]) {
     if($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'GET') {
          $ARGV[0] = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
     } else {
          read(STDIN, $ARGV[0], $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
     }
}
if ($ARGV[0]) {
     %FORM;
     &get_arg;
   
     if ($FORM{'todo'} eq 'get' ) {
          &get_messages;
     }
     if ($FORM{'todo'} eq 'post' ) {
          &post_message;
     }
     if ($FORM{'todo'} eq 'namesearch' ) {
          &name_search;
     }
} else {
     print "no parameters!\n";
}   

#### Initialize Arguments ##################################

sub get_arg {
     @pairs = split(/&/, $ARGV[0]);
     foreach $pair (@pairs) {
          ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
          $value =~ tr/+/ /;
          $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
          $value =~ s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g;     
          $FORM{$name} = $value;
     }
}

#### Name Search ##################################

sub name_search {

     $infile=0;
     open (USERLIST,"<$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     @users = <USERLIST>;
     close (USERLIST);

     open (USER,">>$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
     foreach $pair (@users) {
          ($username,$lastpoll,$datestamp)=split(/\,,,,,,,,,,,/,$pair);
          if ($username eq $FORM{'name'}) {
               print "&namefree=false";
               $infile=1;
          }
     }
     if ($infile==0) {
          &stamp;
          print "&namefree=true";
          print USER "$FORM{'name'},,,,,,,,,,,$timestamp,,,,,,,,,,,$datestamp\n";
     }

     close (USER);
     &clean_userlist;

     open (INROOM,"<$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     @inchat = <INROOM>;
     close (INROOM);
     $people=0;
          foreach $one (@inchat) {
               $people++;
          }
     if ($people==1) {
          open (MESSAGES,">$basedir/$messagefile") || die $!;
          print MESSAGES "";
          close (MESSAGES);
     }
     print "&eof=true";
}

#### Get messages ##################################

sub get_messages {

     &get_userlist;
     open (MESSAGES,"<$basedir/$messagefile") || die $!;
     @text = <MESSAGES>;
     close (MESSAGES);

     print "&messages=";
          foreach $line (@text) {
          $line =~ s/ /+/g;
          $line =~ s/%/%25/g;
          $line =~ s/&/%26/g;
          #$line =~ s/?/%51/g;
          print $line;
     }
     print "&eot=true";
}

#### Post messages ##################################

sub post_message {

     open (MESSAGES,">>$basedir/$messagefile") || die $!;
     print MESSAGES "<$FORM{'name'}> $FORM{'text'}\n";
     close (MESSAGES);
     &get_messages;
}

#### Get list of current users ##################################

sub get_userlist {

     &clean_userlist;
     open (INROOM,"<$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     @inchat = <INROOM>;
     close (INROOM);
     $people=0;

     print "&userlist=";
     foreach $one (@inchat) {
          ($username,$lastpoll)=split(/\,,,,,,,,,,,/,$one);
          print "$username\n";
          $people++;
     }
}

#### Clean user list ##################################

sub clean_userlist {

     open (USERLIST,"<$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     @users = <USERLIST>;

     close (USERLIST);
     &stamp;
     $inlist=0;

     open (NEWLIST,">$basedir/$userfile") || die $!;
     foreach $set (@users) {
          ($username,$lastpoll,$lastdate)=split(/\,,,,,,,,,,,/,$set);
          chop($lastdate);
          if ($lastpoll+7 >= $timestamp && $lastdate eq $datestamp) {
               if ($username eq $FORM{'name'}) {
                    print NEWLIST "$username,,,,,,,,,,,$timestamp,,,,,,,,,,,$datestamp\n";
                    $inlist=1;
               } else {
                    print NEWLIST "$username,,,,,,,,,,,$lastpoll,,,,,,,,,,,$lastdate\n";                   
               }
          }         
     }
     if ($inlist==0) {
          print NEWLIST "$FORM{'name'},,,,,,,,,,,$timestamp,,,,,,,,,,,$datestamp\n";               
     }
close (NEWLIST);
}
#### Get timestamp ##################################

sub stamp {
     ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
     $totalseconds=$sec+$min*60+$hour*3600;
     $timestamp = $totalseconds;
     $datestamp = "$mday $mon $year";
     chop($timestamp) if ($timestamp =~ /\n$/);
     chop($timestamp) if ($datestamp =~ /\n$/);
}

exit;


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

Did anyone tried the code, modified it , does it work well?

Just asking since there were a lot of people interested working on this open source project.

Thanks Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's the status of this project???? Anything for testing yet? If not, then
does everyone have a IRC Client sitting around? I'm in the mood for
setting up a week end chat-a-thon soon. I wonder if the VDS IRC Server
is still alive and kicking......

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For the people who don't have an IRC client, Tommy's vdsinet.dll contains a example for it which you can use.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I dont like IRC (thats my personnal opinion Wink ) thats why Im try to find ways to do an IM for VDSWORLD and my future VDSPORTAL... So I installed a PHP made Instant Messaging system. I wanted to convert the client to VDS but have no time for this right now.

If you want to try it feel free to do it:



BTW I didnt code that Wink I wish I new PHP better...

Also if you want to use a live chat system other than IRC there's always the flash client I posted in this thread that still works, its a flash client connecting to my server. It really works well actually.. and very simple to use too...




Unzip and drag the SWF file to an opened Web browser window

Have a nice day... Laughing
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