jabber

Robot for AIM, Samtime, OCS, etc.

Hi, we know Google supplied some robots of gtalk , such as [email protected] which translates the messages you send to it from english to german. And I want to know are there any robot IM accounts that always on-line for AIM, SameTime, OCS, etc. I don't care what the robot can do, but at least echo what I send to it. Thanks. ...

Jabber bot - how to get the availability of contacts?

I need to set up a jabber bot, using python, that will send messages based on the online/offline availability of several contacts. I've been looking into pyxmpp and xmpppy, but couldn't find any way (at least nothing straightforward) so check the status of a given contact. Any pointers on how to achieve this? Ideally I would like some...

What are general areas you would want to use XMPP?

I understand that XMPP is used in chat services, but it seems to be more generally useful than that. Can someone list some scenarios and examples where you would consider using XMPP, and the pros and cons of it versus other approaches? ...

Changing password using Jabber Net

Hi, I was wondering whether it is is possible to modify a user's password using Jabber Net. If so, is there a neat way to verify first that the old password is indeed valid before modifying it to the new one? ...

What are the incompatibilities of libjingle and XEP-0166 et al?

libjingle's developer guide quite vaguely mentions incompatibilities between libjingle's implementation of Jingle and XEP-0166's specification. It also mentions it is incompatible with XEP-0167, XEP-0176 and XEP-0177. It never goes into detail what these differences are; in fact, it is unclear if perhaps these differences have been res...

local Jabber account sign in from another localtion

I have set up a local jabber server using jabberd14, for development with xmpp on pidgin. I have set up accounts for my team so that they can login to this server and the development can be faster, preventing time consuming login logouts with web xmpp servers like google. But when the accounts are accessed by them it says 1 account was...

XMPP: how to request server for presence status of a user's contacts ?

We have a site and we developed a chat system for it using strophe.js library and ejabberd XMPP server. We use session attachment that was initiated with PHP (using an in-house library). What we do is get the RID and SID from the PHP script, then use strophe's session attachment. The said RID and SID is stored on a cookie and the RID val...