Sounds great!

But what about Yahoo widget: http://messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox/

and

meebo? : http://www.meebome.com/

I've never released any of my mods before, so I'm not quite sure how to go about that properly. I think it'd just be easier to complete the mod and then add it to the collection, rather than add it to the collection and disappoint people when it's not done.

There's no way to add support for webcaming/file transfer without having to write a server side application that has to be installed - and I'm making this mod so that it utilizes the web server that's already there instead of having to install a server side app that listens for connections.

Plus, part of my security measures is not connecting people directly to each other, and without a server-side listening application the only way to do that feature is to connect each IMers to each other directly. That would reveal IP addresses (and especially with open source stuff it would be easy to throw in some code to show the IP address of the person you are chatting/caming/file transfering with).

So I will not add support for file transfer, or webcam (for information security purposes).



Yeah, that's why I don't think that I'd even use this mod on my own forums - my members don't have an interest in downloading yet another IM client.

well i want it on my forum ;) i dont mind if my clients have to download another IM client.

know what would be dope. whats that program that u can login to multiple IM clients @ once? i forgot the name, but if they have like a addon where you load a plugin or something to load another IM service, that would be killer....and just login to your forum account via that 1 program

I think you're talking about Pidgin. The problem is that it depends on active server listeners - it handles things via socks communication. My mod doesn't do that.

But according the development docs I could possibly write a perl script as a plugin for Pidgin (this is just a cursory glance at the docs)... But first, I really want to get the mod working in the first place before discussing addons.

I really don't even want to do many addons to this thing because I don't think I'd use it myself (and it's hard for me to get excited about programming something I wouldn't use).

any luck so far?

well, i know this is something most of us in this vb community have been waiting for for a very long time, and i hope, and im sure many more hope, that someone will finally get it done for us.

Sorta, I've got the GUI and an alpha version working.

Right now I'm tweaking the GUI, I'm making it so that you can easily customize it to say that it's your forums' IM client (like the title of the window could be changed to something specific to your forums) and I'm adding support for multiple languages (it'll be easily extendable/translatable).

I also found that other VBMessenger thing you were talking about. I found out where the exploits are, and I'm not going to repeat those mistakes.

i didnt know there were exploits on that mod.

Yeah, the problem is with the way they handled the input to the server, it allows for someone to feed fake data into the application that can terminate the serverside script early and then insert their own code - which could actually allow an attacker to elevate their account to an admin account (and we all know the reprecussions of that :rolleyes:). As if that weren't enough, the scripts don't verify identity all that well, so with a few well worded commands an attacker could pull down the private account information of anyone they choose.

How is progress?