http://blog.jwchat.org coding and stuff Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:29:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Enjoy! #!/usr/bin/perl -w # # check_bosh plugin for nagios # # usage: # check_bosh -U url -H host # # Check if bosh service running at specified address # # initial version: 3 May 2000 by Truongchinh Nguyen and Karl DeBisschop # # current status: $Revision: 1196 $ # # Copyright Notice: GPL # $Id: check_bosh.pl 1196 2009-06-17 15:20:46Z s.strigler $ # use ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/06/17/nagios-plugin-to-monitor-bosh-services/ Firefox as of version 3.0.6 seems to not allow reading cookies from HTTP headers when doing AJAX requests. As a consequence JSJaC's HTTP Polling backend can't work correctly anymore and breaks usage of MUCkl and JWChat with this version of Firefox. If your site is affected please consider switching to ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/02/10/firefox-306-not-able-to-read-cookie-breaks-muckljwchat-with-http-polling/ When integrating a web chat (like JWChat) into your existing community most likely you don't want to have your users sign in a second time just for the chat. A possible solution to this problem domain is to let your web server handle BOSH session instantiation and xmpp authentication. Once ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/01/17/jsjac-inherit/ Some days ago a spent many hours to fix a somewhat broken toJson output from dojo. I've been copying around an array between different frames and ended up having an object instead of an array as it should be. Seems Ajaxian has a solution to this array bug now. So ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/01/16/dojo-vs-isarray/ If your ejabberd seems to leak memory it might result out of this bug in erlang's mnesia database. You can easily find out by starting a remote shell to your running ejabberd and whatch results for the following command: lists:foldl(fun(Tab, Acc) -> ets:info(Tab, memory) * 8 + Acc end, 0, ets:all()). The ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/01/14/ejabberd-memory-leak/ Debian (and ubuntu) packages for ejabberd don't contain drivers for mysql. If you want to connect your ejabberd to mysql you need to get those drivers separately from the external ejabberd modules repository and compile them on your own. For convenience I've built a debian package containing the precompiled modules: ejabberd-mysql-20090114_1-2_all.deb Note: ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2009/01/14/ejabberd-mysql-drivers-for-debian-and-ubuntu/ After releasing JSJaC and MUCkl today I'm proud to announce another long awaited release: JWChat v1.0. JWChat is a web based yet full fledged jabber client. It supports most modern browsers like MSIE 6 and 7, Firefox 2.x, Firefox 3.x, Opera, Safari and many more. Just like meebo you can ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/10/jwchat-10/ A new release of MUCkl is available. MUCkl is a lightweight spin off project of JWChat. It offers web based access to Jabber/XMPP groupchats/conferences based on the MUC protocol without having to register for a jabber account (just enter your nickname and off you go!). This release mainly fixes support ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/10/muckl-044-is-out/ A new release of JSJaC is available. JSJaC is a jabber/xmpp library for web based clients written in JavaScript. It supports BOSH and HTTP Polling for connecting to a jabber server. This release mainly fixes issues with Firefox 3. http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/12/09/jsjac-v132-released/ Glad to announce that all core services of jwchat.org are back online now. If you're still experiencing problems let me know! jwchat.org is running on ejabberd-2.0.1 now. Amongst otherst this means you can dive deep into the world of refreshing PEP experience. Also there is a new SSL certificate now. The old ... http://blog.jwchat.org/2008/11/30/jabber-services-back-online/