Client for Yahoo

[Bill Marriott]

This is a fascinating opportunity. Rev certainly has the power for a chat 
application for a major network, it's all a matter of handling the protocol 
properly. Bjornke has written a basic chat application already, but it is 
his own "protocol" and does not operate with any of the major ones out 
there.

- Yahoo a while back released an API for *plugins* for their chat client, 
but this was suspended a while ago. Your only option for Yahoo is to find 
one of the reverse-engineered APIs out there or figure it out on your own. 
As Bjornke pointed out, the legality is dubious, though many people have 
been successful at it. http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/

- AOL has its "Open AIM" initiative, which seems a lot more welcoming. 
http://dev.aol.com/aim

Good luck... and should you get it working, I'm sure we'd be happy to 
publish your story in the revUp newsletter.

- Bill
  runrev marketing guy



"Chris Young" <cyoung_mi at yahoo.com> wrote in 
message news:908631.67361.qm at web82706.mail.mud.yahoo.com...
Hello,
 I've tossed around this idea with a few friends,
 but I wanted to see what other users thought.

Is it possible to create a custom yahoo chat client
with runrev?
Has anyone tried it yet?