[Web4lib] IM Security

[Micah Stevens]

Keep in mind there are in-browser Java and Flash based IM clients. These 
work pretty well in my experience, some don't need a IM server at all, 
they deal with that by using server-side CGI code. It's all one package 
so to speak, this really refines the avenues of possible security risks 
since all the information is just to and from your webserver, just like 
a web-page. Others work with a server.

-Micah



On 03/06/2007 01:48 PM, Jami Haskell wrote:
> This is a concern for me as well. I want to make sure that we make it 
> as easy as possible for people to IM us and not force them to conform 
> to a client that they don't use.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has responded to this question.
> I have been taking notes!  I really feel that I will be better 
> prepared to meet with my systems people later this week to try to push 
> this project forward.
>
> all the best,
> Jami Haskell
>
>
> On 3/6/07, *Micah Stevens* <micah at raincross-tech.com 
> <mailto:micah at raincross-tech.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 03/06/2007 11:35 AM, Leo Robert Klein wrote:
>     >
>     > Can the people with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. communicate with
>     > Jabber?  That for me would be the bottom line.
>     >
>     >
>     Depends on the client software. Google can by default because they
>     use
>     the same protocol as Jabber. Trillian supports many protocols
>     including
>     Jabber. There are others like this. The basic AOL, MSN, and Yahoo
>     clients do not support this functionality though as far as I know.
>
>     -Micah
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