[Gossip-dev] Integrating with Gossip

[Martyn Russell]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:46 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> It has occurred to me that I want to write a program that uses Jabber.
> Not a big deal! However, the nature of this program makes me want to
> integrate into the user's existing IM client. The details of the program
> aren't exactly important (I want to allow a user to browse another
> user's files.)

For what purpose?

> What I really want though is access to the Jabber transport from an
> external program. I want my program to be able to launch, and perhaps
> thru D-BUS, send custom XMPP messages to other JIDs.

Mmm, this doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Using Dbus to send any
message over a socket to some server sounds like a security nightmare.

Unless you could be more specific? :)

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Regards,
Martyn