Script for livechat with staff

Andre_br has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello my code-friends,

Here´s a web one.

I am willing to write my own liveChat script, but I am quite confused about how the script should work. I mean, in normal conditions I use Perl scripts as one-time calls, like I-give-you-this-and-you-give-me-that-and-end-of-talk.

But for the live chat It would be necessary to keep talking, as new messages from the visitor and the adm staff will have to be server-pushed for both (as they arrive, to avoid obssessive and sometimes pointless refreshing of the client-pull technique).

My host doesn´t support mod_perl and also kills scripts after 10 minutes of life. So I don´t know how to procede. This odd CGI dialog format seems too strange for me.

Can anyone give me some directions? I´ve tried to find coherent material about this on the web without success.

Thanks a lot

Andre_br

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Re: Script for livechat with staff by Jaap (Curate) on Jul 27, 2005 at 14:34 UTC
ajax might be what you want. In javascript (client-side) you can request a (xml, or not) document from the server and parse it and let it display the lastest lines.	[reply]
Re^2: Script for livechat with staff by phaylon (Curate) on Jul 27, 2005 at 14:47 UTC
Maybe Catalyst and Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype* -wich uses HTML::Prototype- will be worth a look. * Prototype is the name of this implementation of the AJAX idea. Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley	[reply]
Re: Script for livechat with staff by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 27, 2005 at 16:56 UTC
If you are not "stuck" using stateless http, you can setup your own server, and give clients to your staff. It's alot easier, and more "eavesdropping-proof". Tk encrypted echoing-chat client and server is encrypted and has a few bells and whistles, but you could also just use one of the basic echoing chat servers-client pairs, of which there are many basic examples. Of course your firewall has to allow you to use your chosen port. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]