1. RE: [Off Topic??] ICQ, DLL Wrapping, Euphoria, Eu2LCC
Thomas Parslow (PatRat) wrote:
> > Me and a friend are in a bit of a disagreement. He's insane about his
> > ICQ list and database. He keeps coming up with more and more ideas for
> > ways to save his list(and know what others in his house do with his
> > icq). He has tried and tried to show them how to use there own icw
> > number but his lilttle brothers are...Well there little brothers =)
> >
> > He thinks the best way to back up a list would be to get a shell and run
> >
> > a icq proxy that saves all msg's to/from your icq number, That is IF
> > there was a way to make all transfers go via the proxy. I think the best
> >
> > way would be to wrap the dll's and save the msg's out like that(was my
> > first idea for backing up) Tho his bro hides what he does(hence his
> > paranoia with his list) in a few ways, one of wich is to brute force
> > delete the <uin>.dat/<uin>.idx files. Being that there are
> > <uin>.tmp.idx/.dat files that only cause's him to lose all his contacts
> > and msg's, Tho thats the whole point is to keep them. As far as i know
> > icq used to allow a "Send/recive all messages via the server" tho i
> > never looked into it and never heard of it working for 100% of icq's msg
> >
> > functions. Anyone who has ideas/coments/flames post away(url with info
> > would be great, then ~I~ dont have to be so involved =)
> >
> >
> > Grape Vine
> > 13728824
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd suggest switching to Jabber, it's open source and it has server
> side gateways to most other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, MSN). It
> would be very easy to write a Jabber proxy, modify an existing
> open-source client or write your own client (that's my current project
> atm :).
>
> Also, Jabber is very good if you have firewall, it establishes a
> single outgoing TCP connection to the Jabber server on port 5222.
>
> Have a look at:
> www.jabber.org
> www.jabbercentral.com
> www.jabber.com
>
> Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
> Rat Software
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>
>
He loves ICQ, no chance there. Me, I perfer IRC, i only use ICQ for a
few friends and people from the Euphoria list.
Grape Vine
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2. RE: [Off Topic??] ICQ, DLL Wrapping, Euphoria, Eu2LCC
gertie at ad-tek.net wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2001, at 5:56, Grape Vine wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Me and a friend are in a bit of a disagreement. He's insane about his
> > ICQ list and database. He keeps coming up with more and more ideas for
> > ways to save his list(and know what others in his house do with his
> > icq). He has tried and tried to show them how to use there own icw
> > number but his lilttle brothers are...Well there little brothers =)
> >
> > He thinks the best way to back up a list would be to get a shell and run
> >
> > a icq proxy that saves all msg's to/from your icq number, That is IF
> > there was a way to make all transfers go via the proxy. I think the best
> >
> > way would be to wrap the dll's and save the msg's out like that(was my
> > first idea for backing up) Tho his bro hides what he does(hence his
> > paranoia with his list) in a few ways, one of wich is to brute force
> > delete the <uin>.dat/<uin>.idx files. Being that there are
> > <uin>.tmp.idx/.dat files that only cause's him to lose all his contacts
> > and msg's, Tho thats the whole point is to keep them. As far as i know
> > icq used to allow a "Send/recive all messages via the server" tho i
> > never looked into it and never heard of it working for 100% of icq's msg
> >
> > functions. Anyone who has ideas/coments/flames post away(url with info
> > would be great, then ~I~ dont have to be so involved =)
>
> Errr,,,, ok, i stopped using icq back when aol bought it, and i had it
> firewalled before
> that, but anyhow,, is it still possible to tell icq the ip addresses of
> the icq/aol servers,
> or can you locate the code and change them to localhost? If so, you
> could write a
> proxy to grab everything from 127.0.0.1:ThePort, and stash it however
> you want, then
> automagically delete the real files then the connection is dropped. It
> should be easy to
> write, since you'd be transferring everything from the icq client out to
> the server without
> changing it, just logging it. Be sure to start the proxy before you
> start the client, or it
> will prolly search for the home numbers and download a new server list,
> cause the
> proxy hasto be there to look like the server to the client, and the
> proxy hasto look like
> the client to the server. In addition, you could have the proxy store
> the userlist,
> encrypted, and decrypt it and drop it where the icq client expects it to
> be when it
> is started, deleting it on shutdown. Good luck!
>
> Kat
>
I dont blame you. Ever since version 2000 its realy sucked(worse then
normal). Im getting ready to go back to 99a.
Grape Vine
13728824
