Re: ICQ using Perl

If I were you, I'd break up the problem slightly differently . Write a module which handles parsing and creation of the ICQ protocol in a transport-independant way. That would be generally useful to work with ICQ protocol streams no matter how you get them. Leave the client/server stuff to modules which others have already written.

Update: Doh! Nevermind :) I obviously didn't see your earlier post (and didn't know about Net::ICQ).

I've had some luck with Net::Server and NetServer::Generic for this sort of thing.

Alan

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Re: Re: ICQ using Perl by cLive ;-) (Prior) on May 09, 2002 at 23:33 UTC
If you read my earlier post, you'd see I was going to base all this on the Net::ICQ module (if it still works :) From my previous attempt, I realise that I need to run a local ICQ server that is a client for the AOL ICQ server. This was the bit I need some help with. Leave the client/server stuff to modules which others have already written. - perhaps a pointer here as to which modules are best for this would be helpful :) cLive ;-) -- seek(JOB,$$LA,0);	[reply]

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Re: Re: ICQ using Perl
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on May 09, 2002 at 23:33 UTC

From my previous attempt, I realise that I need to run a local ICQ server that is a client for the AOL ICQ server. This was the bit I need some help with.

Leave the client/server stuff to modules which others have already written. - perhaps a pointer here as to which modules are best for this would be helpful :)

cLive ;-)

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