Re: Has Anyone Proposed Net_Jabber Lately?

Robert P Peake wrote: > Hi Devs, > > With Google Talk <http://www.google.com/talk/> basically > being Jabber > <http://jabber.org> and raising the public interest yet > again in > instant messaging, it might be useful to make this available in Pear. > And with PHP 5.1 you should be able to switch the stream context to > TLS on-the-fly to handle Jabber's TLS authentication (haven't tested > this yet, though...) In PHP4 you could use a digest or some other > semi-secure mode to authenticate your "client" with the Jabber server. > > I was writing a Jabber alerter > <"‡Î[¨LD3ØBà > T¼ohttp://cvs.php.net/pear/Net_Monitor/Monitor/Alert/Jabber.php> for > Net_Monitor <http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Monitor> and > thought why > not do a full-blown Net_Jabber. But, of course, I have no time. > > Anyone else thought of taking this on? > > Cheers, > Robert > A while back there was a proposal for a package called Net_IM, which supported different IM types, not just jabber. I don't think this proposal ever made it past draft stage, but I agree that this is a good idea. -- Matthew