I'm working on a web service that need to be able to communicate with people via MSN messenger. For example, send an instant message to someone to remind them of an appointment.
MSN messanger works by having a persistant socket connection open to one server (called a Notification server), and then opening new socket connections for each conversation that is initiated. The socket communications are all text, an work not unlike a telnet session (you can connect to the server via telnet and mimic the protocol, just like you can with POP).
Is there a simple way to do this within AOLserver? I tried experimenting with AOLservers socket communications api (on the tcl side) but got nowhere quick.
On the other hand I tried doing it within a standard tcl interpreter and was able to make good progress. Is there a good way to communicate between aolserver and an external tcl interpreter?
Thanks in Advance,
Matthew Soldo
