Jim McGarry, Exam Proctoring center, sent me this question:<\/p>\n
I want to send an IM (AIM) based on user input on a webpage to one of about 6 recipients whose ids I know. \u00a0User wouldn’t compose IM – it would be something like ‘ “netid” is here for a meeting’ where netid is a field he enters.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This got complicated fast. AIM uses a proprietary protocol. Any APIs or code modules have been reverse engineered by traffic snooping. Nothing goggled up from php land except for one Russian library I didn’t want to trust<\/p>\n
I did find a perl module, Net::OSCAR . But to run on\u00a0cgi.uvm.edu<\/a>\u00a0(which historically is where perl, C, python, or other non-php scripts live), it needed XML::Parser . So I asked SAA if they could install XML::Parser on\u00a0cgi.uvm.edu<\/a>, and they told me that they hope to retire\u00a0cgi.uvm.edu<\/a>\u00a0sometime this fall, would we like to test something new. I said, “Sure.”<\/p>\n
So here’s the deal. epc and waw now have our own virtual web servers<\/p>\n
http:\/\/epc.w3.uvm.edu
\n<\/a>http:\/\/waw.w3.uvm.edu<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPut php and perl scripts there, in www-root. Access and error message logs found in www-logs. You will need to install Net::OSCAR and any other necessary perl modules following these set-up instructions<\/p>\n
http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/2980297\/how-can-i-use-cpan-as-a-non-root-user<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
followed by<\/p>\n
cpanm Net:OSCAR<\/p>\n
add these lines to perl scripts to tell script where to find locally installed perl modules<\/p>\n
use lib ‘\/users\/e\/p\/epc\/perl5\/lib\/perl5’;
\nuse lib ‘\/users\/e\/p\/epc\/perl5\/lib\/perl5\/x86_64-linux-thread-multi’;<\/p>\nI wrote the perl script using sample provided by Net::OSCAR, sent it to Jim with instructions<\/p>\n
change these two lines<\/p>\n
my $screenname = “screenname”;
\nmy $password = “password”;<\/p>\nto send “holy moley batman” to screen name “maddodskideath” …<\/p>\n
http:\/\/waw.w3.uvm.edu\/aim.pl?to=maddogskideath&message=holy+moley+Batman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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