Re: [Off Topic??] ICQ, DLL Wrapping, Euphoria, Eu2LCC
- Posted by "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" <patrat at rat-software.com> Jun 15, 2001
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> 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 http://www.rat-software.com/ Please leave quoted text in place when replying