Hi, I am in sort of stupid project. As my company doesn't allow Y! messenger just to be following ISO standards, which says 'external chat software and file-sharing software should not be allowed in corporate, as it would leak the private documents". ANd i agree that for certain limit. Private documents are the sole property of company. BUt since the new client has asked to provide Y! messenger to everyone working on their project, so they and onsite people can have better communication, it is now a problem. The company has provided that, but now asked me if I can get to disable the File-Transfer and Chat-Room features in it. THe highest priority is to disable the File-Transfer features.
I searched Internet, and came up with no easy and quick solution. (** GRR, Y! should have a feature to restrict)**. I came up with some faint solution. Here are those: Edit the source of Pigdin, disable File-Sharing/Transfer feature. But since its in C/C++, a major problem for us. People here are specialized in Java, Dot.NET. Myself in Opensource Techs, and somehow Python (which I know less, but like most). So development/editing in C++ is challenger/. The second idea is to develop own Web-based MEssenger something like Meebo (we can't use Meebo as it is restricted and also it has the file-sharing feature). We can use the same nice library libpurple, but since there is no python binding for it, it again is a sort of problem for me. The third idea is to edit the Y! messenger binary, find the port it uses for the transfer (80) and restrict it. But none of these satisfies me. I am still looking for some better idea, therefore I put the problem infront of you. Suggest me your creative and better idea,. Also, if someone can suggest me solution around python, it would be great. -- -=Ravi=- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
