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Re: Faster cleaner instant message checking

said by johnnylundy:

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Over at ATM we're trying to script a background process to query this page and somehow get a "yes" or "no" as to whether there are message(s) waiting.

Is there any way to programmatically get this info or is it limited to physically viewing the page that the URL generates?

TIA

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Got this working as a native app. Here are the key things to get it working (in C):

#define REQUESTFMT "GET /instantcheck/%s HTTP/1.0\n\n"
%s will later be substituted with your user id. The string is the actual HTTP request you need to send. Note the HTTP spec requires two carriage returns.

#define IM_NO "SRC=\"http://i.dslr.net/bb/imsg1.gif\""
#define IM_YES "SRC=\"http://i.dslr.net/bb/imsg.gif\""
These are the strings to use to search the returned HTML.
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