Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Chat API

Author:Paul Snively
Posted:1/18/2000; 9:11:35 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 1/18/00
Msg #:14569 (In response to 14564)
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Dave Winer asks:

Are there any chat systems that have easy open APIs?

I'm happy to report that WebCrossing 3.1's XML-RPC support has evolved quite nicely, and WebCrossing also supports chat. This is almost certainly an appropriate starting point, at least for a "proof of concept" if not a production system. One of the things that's cool about WebCrossing's approach is that they have a server-side JavaScript implementation that wraps their discussion/chat objects, and any JavaScript function can be XML-RPC enabled, so you can write arbitrarily rich wrappers around WebCrossing's APIs and expose them through XML-RPC!

<http://www.webcrossing.com>

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